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REFERRING to the letter of Dr. Sydney J. Hickson, published in your paper of June 16 last (p. 157), I have the pleasure to communicate to you that I have a collection of fourteen cocoa-nut pearls (one of them I myself found in 1866 at Holontalo, North Celebes, in the endosperm of the seed of the cocoa-nut); two melati pearls (Jasminium sambac); one tjampaka pearl (Michelia longifolia), found in the flowers, according to the natives. One of the cocoa-nut pearls has a pear-shaped form, the length being 28 mm. The common name amongst the natives for this kind of pearls is mustika.
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RIEDEL, J. Cocoa-nut Pearls. Nature 36, 461 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036461a0
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