INDEX TO INTRODUCTORY NOTICES AND ANNOTATIONS.
East Indies continued :—
Bengal Province, list of contributions from, to thiscollection, 928.
-, medicinal substances from, 809.
Calamus, or “sweet cane” of Scripture, 878.
Cambay lapidaries: articles manufactured by them inagates, cornelians, &c., processes and tools employedby them, and trade they maintain, 802-865.
Caoutchouc and gutta pcrcha from Assam , 870, 876.
Ceylon: note on geological and mineral specimens inthis collection, 937.
Climate and productions of India , various in proportionto its territorial extent and features, 860.
Coal, deposits of, in India , are from cast to west, 860.
-, their localities noted : as, from Assam into Silhet
ami Burdwan, along the course of the Nerbudda, in"W. district of Cutcn, p. 860.
Committees, central and local: communications of theCompany’s government with, in the four Presidenciesof Bengal, Agra , Madras, and Bombay, 858-60.
Copper and lead mines in regions between CentralIndia and the Croat Desert on the north-west,abundant, 860.
-, geographical distribution of, in India , 860.
Cotton , specific differences from flax and hemp; anti-quity of this probably indigenous product as a mate-rial for clothing; wide diffusion and various qualitiesin Nagpore, Berur, Broach, Surat, Coimbatore , &o.;statistics of production in Dharwar, Belgaum , &c.,880-882; manufactures of, 914.
---, notice of experiments on cultivation of, from
North American and Sea Island seed; also of thesuccess of these experiments in Candeish, Dharwar,and Belgaum , 881-882.
Diamond; account of large one in possession of theNizam, 921.
Dried fruits: viz. tamarinds, jujubes (“ bel,” or“ byer”), plantains, figs, raisins, plums and apricots,almonds, pistachio nuts, from Cabal; dates, fromPersian Gulf ; cocoa nuts, walnuts, and hazel nuts,from Cashmere and the Himalaya ; Badam, Dorianfruit, vEgle, Marmcls, &c., 871.
Drinks, substances used in preparation of:—
1. Tea; failure of first experiments to cultivate this
shrub in Penang , Java, and ltio Janeiro; pro-bable success in the Himalayas ; realised inAssam , and extensive tracts now occupied by it,872; processes of Chinese with black and greenteas, 872.
2. Coffee; its general and increasing cultivation in
India ; chiefly grown among the mountains ofthe Malabar coast, as in the Wyuaad, and in theSheravoy hills, near Salem ; ami on the S.W. ofBengal, Chonta, Nagpore, and Assam , 873.
Dyeing and calico-printing: extreme antiquity of theirestablishment in India , very slightly represented;but of specimens exhibited some remarkable for theirbeauty of patterns and colours, 917.
Dyes and colours: brilliancy of colours, though underdefective processes, 880.
Enamels, calligraphy, and engraving on gems, 927 28.
Farm implements of the Mahratta country, models of,912-13.
Fibre-yielding plants of India : their great number, andcapabilities of manufacture into textures, 882-883.
Fibrous substances, see Cotton, Flax , &c.; Kurkhoraof the Malays; and China grass, 883.
Fine arts, as exemplified in Indian col lection, note on, 926.
Fishing in Bombay harbour: stakes, tackle, nets, &c.,924 25.
Flax cultivated in India entirely for the sake of thelinseed, from which the oil is expressed, see Hemp, 882.
Food, animal substances, 891.
Geographical boundaries and regions of India , 860.
Graphite, found at Kemaon, 860.
Gums, resins, and gum-resins, distinctions to be notedbetween their properties; gums of the Acacia Ara-bica, leronica, melin, mimosops, green and colouredresins, Coorg, saul-tree resin, &c., 876.
llemp cultivated solely for its intoxicating distilledspirit, 882.
-, jute, flax, and other fibres, 883.
Intoxicating ami stimulating urugs: opium, hemp, to-bacco, and “ arrack,” 873.
Iron-sinelting processes adopted in India , 841.
-machinery: manufacturing machines and tools,
9074)9.
East Indies continued :—
Kaolins , remarkably fino in Madras collection, 8G0.
“ Kayu garu,” or “ Argaln wood, 878.
Lignite, traces of, discovered where the immense de-posits of fossil bones occur in the tertiary strata, 860.
Madrus ? largest supply of (Indian ) minerals, timberami fancy woods from that presidency, 866.—Noteon other woods, &c. (Indian, Cingalese , Malayan, &c.),ami detailed lists, 866, 886-90.
Madras, roots cultivated in; as yams, sweet potatoes,ginger, onions, garlic, carrots, turmeric, &c., 871.
Magnetic ores of iron furnish the “ wootz,” from whichthe celebrated Indian steel is made by natives, 860.
Manna, from the Tamarask, 876.
Manufactures from these ores by European methods,when established, 860 ; detailed list of, 666-69.
Marbles and metals, and works on metal ami stone, 860.
Medicinal substances of India that have long beenknown in Europe , 869.
Mineral products ot India . Influences of physical fea-tures and accidents of this region; distribution ofcoast, rivers, &c. in determining them, as well as theproducts of the other kingdoms of nature there, 860.
Minerals transmitted from the Himalaya mountains;ores or metals in but small quantity, 860.
Miscellaneous collection of mineral, animal, nml vege-table substances of India , used in medicine, 893 907.
-feathers, furs, skins, ivory, pearls, &c., 893 94.
Mountain chains: their direction and influences, 860.
Muoliwa tree, spirit distilled from its flowers, 873.
Oil series :—(l) volatile, (2J fatty, (3) solid. (1.) Attarof roses, grass oil (not the spikenard of Scriptures),sandal-wood oil, siri, or lemon-grass oil, essence ofketjee, of Keora, agila, refined camphor of Sumatra .(2.) Linseed, sesamum, guizotia, &c. (3.) Bassin,
butyraeea, vegetable tallow from Sarawak and Ma-lacca , kokuin from Bombay, &c., 878-80.
Pe8himua,or slmwl wool usedin making, 1, the Doshnlla,or long shawls; 2, Kussaba, or square shawls; 3,Jamcwars, or striped shawl pieces; 4, Alwan, or plainwhite shawl cloth. Miscellaneous qualities, &c., 934.
Rice not the chief food of a majority of natives, 870.
Roots. Yams, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic,turmeric; also, melons, cucumbers, noddes, &c., 871.
Sculpture and models of figures connected with socialoccupations, arts, &c., in India , 921.
Shawls oflndia. ('ashmerc shawls. Note on their manu-facture, and wools employed in them, 934.
Silk (Pat), Tussur, &c., 891.
Spices and condiments not all obtained from Rpicoislands j true cinnamon (of Ceylon, cinnamon tree),and varieties of cassia, so called; nutmegs, wild andcultivated, &c., &c., notices of, 874.
Spikenard, the tree, 878.
Starch series. Starches from varieties of the arrowroot,and of the canua; from sago; phoenix, and othervarieties of palm; plantain meal, “salep misree;”“agar agar,” 874-75.
“Starch”—term employed in this collection in a muchlarger sense than as indicating merely a material forstiffening cloths, &c. Different plants, shrubs, &c.,of India , producing starch, 874.
Sugar series. Extensive increase of this productionin India ; various sources besides the cane of rawsugars, as wild date palm of Bengal; Palmyra palm,Madras; gomuti or sago palm of the Straits ; neepah,called the screw palm, 875-76.
Sugar-candy of Biekanec, largely manufactured in re-gions of which the soil is incapable of producingthe raw material, 875.
Tanning substances, trees, barks, shrubs, roots, andweeds, possessing the tanning principle, 881.
Tea, see Drinks.
Temmsserim coast and Borneo , oxides of tin from, 860;ore of iron from file former, 860.
Tobacco, see Intoxicating drinks.
llrtica tcnacissimn and other fibre-yielding plants, seeFibrous substances.
Vessels, native models ; and note thereon, 905-07.
Wootz, see Magnetic iron.
Ebony flute, B flat, silver keyed, Denmark , 1357.
-tree ( Diospt/rus ebeneus), Egypt , 1409.
Economic patent pig-feoding-troughs, 818.
Edible birds’ nests, China , 1422.
Efflorescent, pearl spar, and other iron ores, Austria , 1030.