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Sends account "of the process for preparing the little cakes of lozenges called by the Malays Gutta Gambeer" [extant]. Rumphius has described the plant from which they are made but erroneously denied their being extracted from it. Sends dried specimen of the plant, two drawings, describing their subjects, and specimen of the lozenges.
"Observations on the drug called Gutta Gambeer", including description of 'Nauclea gambir' [7 pp], and description of 'Nauclea acida' and 'Nauclea sclerophylla'.
Anstruther and Hardwicke.