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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1905. 



LITERATURE OF INDIA-RUBBER. 



OBITUARY. 



ENSAIO D'UMA SVNOPSE ESPECIES DO GENERO HEVEA SOU OS 

 Pontes de Vism Svstcmatico e GcoRraphico. Pelo Dr. J. Huber. [A reprint 

 from Boletitii do Mustu Cirtdi—\'o\. IV. (1905) Pp. 620-651.] fParfi: 1905.] 



DR. HUBER, in this paper, has dealt with a vast amount of 

 data bearing upon the genius Jlevea. involving the de- 

 tails relating to no less than 21 species, enumerated by half a 

 dozen authorities, and among other things considers their geo- 

 graphical distribution. Such work cannot fail ultimately to 

 prove of much practical value, and Dr. Huber's essay carries us 

 further toward a systematic understanding of the subject than 

 any one work that has appeared hitherto. 



HAWAII AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, HONOLULU- 

 Press Bulletin No. 13. Rubber in Hawaii. [Honolulu : 1905.] [Svo. Pp. 11. 1 



This is stated to be "mainly a compilation fiom the ex- 

 tremely valuable monograph on the rubber plants of the world '■ 

 by Peter Reintgen : " Die Kautschukpllanzen. Eine Wirtschalts- 

 geographische Studie." This important German work, which 

 was reviewed in The India Rubber World, June i, 1905 (page 

 298), in addition to extensive statistics of rubber production in 

 various countries, described the different commercial rubber 

 species, and these descriptions have been judiciously condensed 

 by Mr. Jared G. Smith, special agent in charge of the Hawaii 

 experiment station, so as to form a " bulletin '' sure to prove 

 of interest to anybody in that region concerned about rubber 

 culture, 



RECHERCHES SUR L'E.XTRACTION DU CAOUTCHOUC DES ECORCES 

 et la Coagulation des latex dans les il/ajcar^wAaj/rt. Par H. Jumelle. (Re- 

 printed from Le Caoutehouc et la Gutta-Percha, August 15 and September 

 15,1905.) Paris: 1905. [8vo. Pp. 17.] 



IN CURRENT PERIODICALS. 



Rkntabilitat einer Guttaperchapflanzung fiir Privatkapital. By W. 

 Kolbe. = Z'£r Tropinpjlanzer, Berlin. IX-g {September, 1905). Pp. 519 



-525- 



Observations sur 1' Hcvea daus le Sud-Annam. By Georges Veinet. 

 ^Journal </' Agriculture Tropicale, Paris. V-51 (September, 1905). 

 Pp. 259 262. 



Besuch Javanischer PflanzuDgen — Vergleiche mit S:n:oa. (A visit 

 to Javanese plantations; comparisons with Samoa.) By Hermann 

 Fiedler. = /'<'r TroptvpJlanzet\ Berlin. IX-io (October, 1905). Pp. 



559-577- 



Ficus elaslica in Angola. By J. Gofsweiler, Loanda. = Z>£V Tropen- 

 pjlanzer, Berlin. IX io (October, 1905). Pp. 581-584, 



Women's Work in Rubber Factories : Its Effect on Health. By Ma- 

 bel Parton, agent for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union 

 of Massachusetts. = T"/;!; Federation Bulletin, Boston. II-6 (March, 

 1905). Pp. 186-189. 



OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. 



OS MOSQUITOS NO PARA. REUNIAO DE QUATRO TRABALHOS 

 sobrc OS Mosquitos indigenas principalmente as especies que molestram o ho- 

 tnem. Pelo Professor Dr. Emilio Augusto Goeldi. Para : 1905. [4to. Pp. 

 l.S4-f 21 plates.] 



The fourth in a series of memoirs of the Pari Museum, in 

 natural history and ethnography, is devoted to the study of the 

 native mosquitos of the Brazilian state of Paid, and more par- 

 ticularly those injurious to man, including the Stegomyia fas- 

 ciata, the mosquito which transmits yellow fever. The work 

 is illustrated with 144 figures illustrating in detail the develop- 

 ment through all the stages of life of the various species, and 

 with colored plates showing each of 14 species largely magni- 

 fied and in colors. Of the scientific value of the work we are 

 not qualified to speak ; as for the manner in which the book is 

 put up, it compares favorably with any publication of any scien- 

 tific institution elsewhere. We may add that after seeing these 

 mosquito portraits we do not wonder at the high price of Para 

 rubber. The wonder is rather that men can be found to brave 

 these pests in the rubber fields. 



GENERAL WILLIAM H. SKIRM, of Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey, died on the evening of October 7 at his home. No, 

 124 East Hanover street. He was born in Trenton, January 

 17, 1841, and at an early age was employed in the wholesale 

 grocery house of Forst tS: Taylor, subsequently becoming a 

 member of the firm, under the style of D. P. Forst & Co. He 

 became interested in many important business concerns, being 

 a stockholder in the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co., of 

 which he was for a number of years president, and also a stock- 

 holder in the Trenton Rubber Co. before the reorganization, 

 and in the Trenton Oilcloth Co. For something like 25 years 

 he was a director and important factor in the Trenton Banking 

 Co. He suffered financial reverses in the crash that overcame 

 Frank A. Magowan, in the Trenton rubber industry, for whom 

 he had been a heavy endorser. 



William H. Skirm in i860 joined Company A, an indepen- 

 dent military company which became subsequently part of the 

 National Guard, State of New Jersey, and was successively 

 lieutenant and captain. In 1900 he was made colonel of the 

 Seventh regiment, and later on retiring was commissioned 

 brevet brigadier general by Governor Voorhees. He was for 

 many years active in politics as a Republican, serving for a 

 number of years in the Trenton common council and for six 

 years in the state senate, of which he was an influential mem- 

 ber and for one year president. He was a delegate to two Re- 

 publican national conventions and to many state and local con- 

 ventions. He was an active member of the First Methodist 

 Episcopal church, being for a long time treasurer of the church 

 corporation and a superintendent of the Sunday school. For 

 20 years he was treasurer of Pennington seminary, under the 

 direction of the Methodist Episcopal conference, and at the 

 time of his death was secretary of the Ocean Grove Camp 

 Meeting Association. 



General Skirm is survived by his wife, a son. Captain Wil- 

 liam H. Skirm, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Robert H. Ingersoll. 

 The funeral on October 9 was private, services being held at the 

 Skirm residence and the interment in Riverview cemetery. 



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Theodore Van Rensselaer Brown, treasurer of the Mar- 

 tin Cantine Co., of Saugerties, New York, died on September 

 29, in his fifty-fifth year. He was born in Columbia county, 

 N. Y., and for a number of years was Canadian agent of the 

 Goodyear Rubber Co. with headquarters at Montreal. The 

 Goodyear Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited, were formerly the 

 selling agents in Canada of the Goodyear Rubber Co. (New 

 York). The title and good will were in time transferred to the 

 Granby Rubber Co., Limited, who still keep the title alive. 



GUTTA-PERCHA FROM THE PHILIPPINES. 



TW^ Neiada, a sailing vessel, reached New York in July, 

 1903, chartered by the Sulu Trading Co. (San Francisc< ) 

 tradmg in the Philippines, its cargo containing copal, motht r 

 of pearl, and 3 tons of Gutta-percha. Messrs. W. R. Grace & 

 Co. (New York) advise The India Ri;bber World : "A por- 

 tion of the lot of Gutta-percha mentioned has been sold.ard 

 we know of no later arrivals from the same source." A like 

 report comes from London, where the Sulu company also placed 

 some material. The Sula company inform The India Rubber 

 World : " Our venture was a losing one, and the company is 

 practically disorganized. So far as we are informed there is no 

 India-rubber in the Philippine islands; there are quantities of 

 gutta, but it does not find purchasers." 



