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VOL. 34, No. 1 of the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute has been published by the Institute itself, but the general format remains practically unaltered. This number contains an important report by the Imperial Institute Advisory Committee on Hides and Skins on a series of hides prepared experimentally in Southern Rhodesia with the view of improving the material turned out by the natives. It is shown that a simple method of drying the hides which was recommended by the Committee gives excellent results, as it did in the case of earlier experiments in East Africa, and is a great improvement over the ordinary native methods of sun-drying. An article by Mr. M. H. French, of the Tanganyika Veterinary Service, records the work which has been done in that Territory to improve the quality of the clarified butter (ghee) produced there. This product, although little known in Great Britain, is of great importance in tropical regions, since when properly prepared and stored it will keep almost indefinitely under conditions in which ordinary butter turns rancid in a few days. An article by Dr. E. O. Teale, mineral adviser to the Government of Tanganyika Territory, describes recent developments in gold mining in this country. Another article gives a brief outline of the mineral resources of Johore, one of the little-known Unfederated States of Malaya. Alluvial tin ore is being mined in three different areas. In another area iron ore is being mined, and unworked deposits are known to occur in three further regions. Gold and china clay are being produced in small amounts, wolfram has been found in one locality, and prospecting for coal is being carried on in two places.
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Economic Products of the British Empire. Nature 138, 21–22 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138021e0
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