PLANTATION RUBBER INDUSTRY OF THE EAST. 503 



At the Paris Exhibition of 1900 rubber was sent by the 

 Kalutara and Northern districts, and by the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, both Hevea and Ceara ; and the Government samples 

 were subsequently given to the Philadelphia Commercial 

 Museum. 



At the St. Louis Exhibition of 1904 three pages were 

 devoted to rubber in the Ceylon handbook, and samples were 

 exhibited from Arapolakande, CHilloden, Eastern Produce and 

 Estates Co., EUakande, Gikiyanakande, Heatherly, Hindu- 

 galla, and Pallekelle. The " Indiarubber World " stated that 

 the Ceylon samples at this exhibition were easily the best 

 crude rubber ever seen in the United States (Straits Bulletin, 

 III., p. 413). 



It has recently been suggested that this error of description 

 shall be remedied by calling aU plantation rubber " Malay 

 rubber." 



XIV.— Rubber Literature. 



The Ceylon authorities early reaHzed the importance of 

 making pubUc aU possible information concerning rubber, 

 and, except for the reports of Wickham and Cross, the litera- 

 ture at the disposal of the intending rubber planter prior 

 to 1900 was chiefly of Ceylon origin. Trimen summarized 

 Cross's reports and added other information in a six -page 

 quarto pamphlet, which was issued as a supplement to the 

 " Ceylon Observer " in April, 1880, and in the following year 

 wrote a short history of the introduction of rubber, which was 

 pubhshed in the report of the New Products Commission 

 (Sessional Paper No. 13 of 1881), while his annual reports 

 from 1880 onwards contain numerous notes on the subject. 

 In 1894 he drew up an account of the progress of rubber 

 planting in Ceylon, . at the request of Kew, and this was 

 subsequently included in the article on Para rubber in the 

 Kew BuUetin, 1898. 



In 1897 the Ceylon Government issued a Sessional Paper on 

 the progress of rubber planting (No. XXIII. of 1897), and this 

 was followed by WiUis's Cu-cular (14 pages) in January, 1898. 



The Kew authorities issued a \-aluable summary of inform- 

 ation in the Kew Bulletin for October, 1898. In this, twelve 



