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MR. NEWLAND scarcely gave himself a fair chance when, to quote his introduction, he was “prevailed upon to issue as a separate book the chapters on ‘Ground Nuts,’ ‘Palm Oil and Kernels,’ ‘Cacao,’ and ‘hea Nuts,’ which originally formed part of a volume on West Africa.“In doing this he has added chapters on coconuts and other edible oil-nuts found throughout the Empire, and has adopted for the whole a comprehensive title, the promise of which it would require unusual skill in compression to fulfil in a book of 111 not very closely printed pages. Moreover, the space at the author's disposal is not well distributed; thus the important oil-seeds soya bean, cottonseed, and sesame are disposed of in one chapter of seven pages, whilst an equal number of pages are given to reprinting Imperial Institute reports on strephonema, n'gore, n'kamba, n'kula, kamoot, and dika nuts. Interesting though these products may be, they are not of commercial importance at present, and reference to them is out of place in a book of this description. The illustrations are the best feature of the volume.
The Planting, Cultivation, and Expression of Coconuts, Kernels, Cacao, and Edible Vegetable Oils and Seeds of Commerce. A Practical Handbook for Planters, Financiers, Scientists, and Others.
H. Osman
Newland
By. (Griffin's Technological Handbooks.) Pp. vi + 111 + xi plates. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 6s. net.
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H., T. The Planting, Cultivation, and Expression of Coconuts, Kernels, Cacao, and Edible Vegetable Oils and Seeds of Commerce A Practical Handbook for Planters, Financiers, Scientists, and Others . Nature 106, 564 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106564a0
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