IMPERIAL INSTITUTE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 2

IMPERIAL INSTITUTE

Recent Investigations Particular reference is made to tlie economic products and resources of British Hondurus in the November number of the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, in which is recorded progress relating to agrieulttii’fl], mineraj and other industries with special reference to the utilisation of the raw materials of the Dominions, colonies and India. This colony has, HP to the present, relied almost entirely on its forest resources ami has devoted all its energies to their exploitation. Secondary timbers, gum. palm fibre, cassava products and starch are among the economic products of the colony which form tlie subject of reports of recent investigations of the institute in the bulletin. Paper making trials of three coniferous woods from Southern Rhodesia are comprehensively described. As a result the pulps obtained furnished very good yields of a strong long-librcd variety tinder relatively mild experimental conditions. This and other investigations of a commercial nature are noted, including encoa fermentation in tlie West Indies and the testing of gums from Nigeria. Additional features are furnished by notes on a variety of subjects and a summary of recent research on Empire products of agriculture, forestry anil niiner.al resources.