Notes on the History of the Plantation Rubber 

 Industry of the East. 



BY 



T. FETCH, B.Sc, B.A. 



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CONTENTS. 



-The introduction of American Rubber Trees. 



-The first flowering of Hevea in the East. 



-The Reports of ColHns, Wickham, and Cross. 



-Distribution in and from Ceylon. 



-Hevea under the Forest Department, Ceylon. 



-Introduction of Hevea into Perak. 



-Singapore. 



-India. 



-Burma. 



-Penang. 



-Andamans. 



-Tapping Experiments, &c. 



-" Ceylon Rubber." 



-Rubber Literature. 



-Brazilian Methods. 



-Ceara Rubber. 



-Castilloa. 



-Other Rubber-yielding Plants. 



^ I '^HE history of the rubber industry of the East has so 

 -■- often furnished a theme that it might be thought that 

 nothing remained to be told. In extenuation of the present 

 compilation, the writer would urge that, in general, the existing 

 accounts have dealt only with special incidents, and none of 

 them can be said to have attempted a survey of the whole 

 subject. 



This account, naturally, deals chiefly with Ceylon, since 

 except for what has already been pubhshed in the literature 

 of other countries, only the records in the Ceylon archives 

 are available. But practically no use has been made of the 

 Ceylon records since Trimen incorporated some of them in the 



Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradenlya, Vol. V., Part VII., Sept., 1914. 



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