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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, igog. 



The Editor's Book Table. 



MANUAI. r,F THE PLANTER IN MALAYSIA. PARA RUBBER 

 Cultivation. — Hevca Brasitiensis. [Also: Manuel du Planteur en Malay- 

 sie. Culture An Caoutchouc de Para.] By C. Mathieu. Pans; Chal- 

 lamel. 1909. [Paper. 410. Pp. iv + 201. Price 18 francs.] 



IN view of the volume to which the literature of rubber culture 

 has attained, it would hardly be expected that so much new 

 matter would be found in a single book as our author has 

 presented here. Its chief merit, however, does not lie in the 

 newness of any feature, but in the compilation with the new of 

 so good a summary of what has been printed on the subject 

 hitherto. We believe that no other book in the same field covers 

 the planting of rubber so comprehensively, though as its title in- 

 dicates, it is designed for planters of Hevca in the Far East, and 

 has a less practical bearing upon planting elsewhere or of other 

 species. M. Mathieu begins with the question of location and 

 environment, the choice of soil, the details to be considered in 

 housing the administration and working forces, and many other 

 practical matters which have to do with a rubber plantation, but 

 which do not always receive proper attention with sufficient 

 promptness. Plans are given of buildings and estimates of 

 costs; the labor question as it exists in the Federated Malay 

 States is dealt with fully, and so on. Then the matter of clearing 

 away forests is taken up, and in proper order all the details of 

 rubber culture from planting the seed to extracting latex and 

 preparing and shipping rubber and marketing it. The work ends 

 with some estimates of cost for opening and maintaining a plan- 

 tation, which will be useful at least in suggesting to intending 

 planters the details under which expenditures may be expected 

 to be called for. The book contains a few pages of statistics, 

 well arranged and informing. The illustrations are numerous 

 and good. 



The book is printed in both English and French, but neither 

 part is a translation from the other. The author explains that 

 the French text was an afterthought, and was written while the 

 English was going through the press, and that in some respects it 

 is the more up-to-date section of the book. The value of the 

 work is enhanced by the fact that its author was one of the 

 earliest planters of Hevea in Malaya. 



EXPOSICAO COLONIAL PE ALGODAO, BORRACHA, CACAU E 

 Cafe (Abri! a Maio de 1906). Catalogo sob a Direccao de Ernesto de 

 Vasconcellos. • ■ - Lisbon: 1906. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. xxni + 104.] 



This pamphlet, which is a record of an iinportant undertaking 

 for the promotion of Portuguese colonial interests in .A.frica, was 

 compiled by the general secretary of the Geographical Society 

 of Lisbon. The Borracha is of course india-rubber, and the de- 

 tails regarding the 80 exhibits of this material is of value for 

 permanent reference for those interested in the distribution of 

 native rubbers in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, 

 besides which there are notes on products of rubber plantations. 



K^LFNDER FUER DIE GUMilMNDUSTRIE UND VERWANDTE BE- 

 'triebe 1909 . . . von Edgar Herhst. Fabrikdirektor. Mit der Beilage: 

 Tahrbuch der Kautschuk- Industrie. Berlin: Union Deutsche Verlagsge- 

 sellschaft. [1909.] [Leather. 24mo. Pp. 460. Price, 4.50 marks.] 



This comprehensive annual is intended to be helpful in every 

 "branch of the rubber trade, whether in the factory, or adminis- 

 trative office, or to the salesman of rubber goods. Comparative 

 prices of raw rubber are given in English, American, German 

 and French money; temperature equivalents by the Fahrenheit 

 and other scales; tables of loss in washing of rubber; changes in 

 customs duties on rubber goods in different countries during 

 the year; statistics of German imports and exports of rubber 

 goods; patents laws in different countries and recent information 

 under various other headings— all concise, accurate, and up to 

 date. The literary section has to do with the latest results in 

 chemical research as related to rubber, including references to 



the principal publications appearing in this branch during the 

 year. There is a summary also of the more important patents 

 relating to rubber. The publishers named on the title page are 

 the proprietors of the Gummi-Zeitung. 



RUBBER. ITS CULTIVATION IN CEYLON, MALAYA, AND JAVA. 

 Report of Observations Made by Fred T. P. Waterhouse, Illustrated by 

 Photographs Made by Him. Issued by the Hawaiian Rubber Growers* 

 Association. [Honolulu] : 1908. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 53.] 



The title fully explains this brochure, except that it does not 

 indicate the excellence of the 32 photographic views of plantation 

 rubber in the Far East, including Ceara rubber trees of 20 

 and 23 years. 



THE UNIVERSAL STANDARD GRADING OF SCRAP RUBBER. 

 By Alfred W. Leslie. [London, 1908.] [Cloth. i2mo. Pp. 46. Price, 

 2 shillings 6 pence.] 



This little volume embodies a paper read at the rubber con- 

 gress in connection with the International Rubber and Allied 

 Trades Exhibition, at the Olympia, London, last October. 



HENDRICKS' COMMERCIAL REGISTER OF THE UNITED STATES, 

 for Buyers and Sellers. EspccialK' devoted to tbe_ Interest of Archi- 

 tectural, Mechanical, Enginering, Contracting, Electrical, Railroad, Iron, 

 Steel, Hardware, Mining, Mill, Quarrying. Exporting and Kindred In- 

 dustries. - - - New York: Samuel E. Hendricks Co., 1908. [Cloth. Large 

 8 vo. Pp. Lxxxii + 1240. Price, $10.] 



The fact that this business man's reference book has appeared 

 regularly under the same management for seventeen years is 

 in itself an indication of merit. The work contains upward of 

 350,000 names and addresses, classified under 33,684 trade head- 

 ings — nuniliers which far exceed those for any preceding issue. 

 We notice 118 different headings for rubber goods, from rubber 

 aprons to rubber window cleaners. We do not understand that 

 the work is offered as a complete American trade directory, but 

 care is taken in the selection of material for it, and we should 

 consider it difficult for any one consulting the work to look 

 under any heading without finding a sufficient number of ad- 

 dresses to be helpful in the matter of looking up business 

 opportunities. 



OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. 

 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. NINETEENTH ANNUAL RE- 



nort. St. Louis; 1908. [Cloth, 8vo. Pp. 287 -f- 35 plates.] 

 INTERNATIONAL CABLE DIRECTORY OF THE WORLD. IN CON- 



junction with Western Union Telegraphic Code System. New York and 



London: International Directory Co. 1908. [Cloth. 4to. Pp. 830. 



Price, $7.30.] 

 REPORT OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, UNITED STATES 



Army, to the Secretary of War. [For the fiscal year ended June 30] 



1908. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1908. [Paper. 8vo. 



Pp- 39 -|- map.] 

 THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR 



Statistics, to the Seventy-seventh General Assembly of the State of Ohio. 



For the year 1907. Springfield, Ohio: State Printers. 1908. [Qoth. 



8vo. Pp. 523.1 



IN CURRENT PERIODICALS. 



Report on the Cultivation of Rubber in Ceylon and the Federated Malay 

 States and Johorc. By Fred T. P. Waterhouse.=r/.« Hau-aiian Forester 

 and Agricnllurist. Honolulu (V-ii Nov., '08.) Pp. 251-303- 



Hawaiian Rubber Growers' Association Annual Meeting. [Reports and 

 papers read.l^T/ic Hnnaiian Forester and Agriculturist, Honolulu. (V-12 

 Dec, '08.) Pp. 307-324. 



Donnees Nnuvelles sur le Bleckrodea Tmikinensis. [An account of an 

 important rubber bearing species in French Indo-China.]=B«H«m t-conlf- 

 mique, Ilanni. XI-74 (Sept. -Oct. '08.) Pp. 520-522- . , .^e c •- 



Electric Cables. By H. W. Fisher. [The dialectic strength of in- 

 sulating materials and the grading of cMesJ=Proceedtngs of the ArMt- 

 ican Institute of Electrical Engineers. New York. XXVII-io (Oct 08). 



^infuriating and Sheathing High Tension Underground Cables. By 

 Henry r[oy.=Electricat World, New York. LII-14 (Oct. 3. 08). Pp. 



^^Rubb^r in Hawaii. By W. A. Anderson. [A review of plantation pro- 

 gress; illustrated. ]=/'ararfi>e of the Pacific, Honolulu. XX1-I2 (Dec. 00;. 



^Rubber and Its Relatives. [Includes balata, gutta-percha, and the like; 

 illustrated.]=Bii;;<r(m of the International B«reau of the American Re- 

 publics, Washington. XXVII-6 (Dec. '08). Pp. 990-1010. 



