[2488] Eight lots of saffron weighing in toto 61 lb., dried at various times during the course of nine years, lost 7 lb. 2¼ oz., i.e. 11·7 per cent.—(Laboratory records of Messrs. Allen & Hanburys, Plough Court, Lombard Street.)
[2489] Wiggers and Husemann, Jahresbericht for 1868. 35.
[2490] Bulletin de la Société impériale d’acclimatation, Avril, 1869.
[2491] Mém. de l’Acad. des Sciences, 1728. p. 100.
[2492] Etude micrographique de la maladie du Safran, connue sous le nom de tacon.
[2493] Statistical Tables relating to Foreign Countries (Blue Book) 1870. 286. 289.
[2494] Dumesnil, l. c.
[2495] Bellew, From the Indus to the Tigris, Lond. 1874. 304.
[2496] Hügel, Kaschmir, ii. (1840) 274.—Powell, Punjab Products, i. (1868) 449.—Pharm. Journ. vi. (1875) 279.
[2497] Proc. of the American Pharm. Assoc. 1866. 254.