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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June r, 1909. 



The Editor's Book Table. 



THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS OF INDIA. BEING AN ABRIDG- 

 ment of "The Dictionary of the Economic Products of India." By Sir 

 George Watt, c. i. e., li. b., c. m., ll. d. • - - Published Under the 

 Authoritv of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. New 

 York: E'. P. Dutton & Co. 1908. [Cloth. Large 8vo. Pp. viii + 1189. 

 Price, S5 net.] 



THE monumental work of Watt, of which this is a condensa- 

 tion and revision, from the same hand, was completed 

 about 15 years ago, in ten bulky volumes, since which time 

 the whole has been the chief authority in its field. There was no 

 product of India, native or cultivated, concerning which it did 

 not present comprehensive and accurate information — it was, in 

 short, a marvelous book. In time, the edition of the book having 

 become exhausted, and owing to the desirability of including in 

 it information of a later date, the author has been induced to 

 prepare the one volume work now before us. In plan it resem- 

 bles the earlier "Dictionary," particularly in embracing so many 

 references to printed sources of information on all the subjects 

 treated. India-rubber, as a product of India, comes in for notice 

 at considerable length, including the various species, other than 

 native, that have been placed under cultivation in the empire. 



THE COPPER HANDBOOK. A MANUAL OF THE COPPER INDUS- 

 try of the World. Volume VIII. Houghton, Michigan; Horace J. 

 Stevens, compiler and publisher. 1908. [Qoth. 8vo. Pp. 1500. Price, 

 S3-] 



One can hardly even glance through this book without gaining 

 an enlarged idea of the importance to the world of copper. This 

 metal is treated from every new point — its occurrence in nature, 

 its mining, and its applications in the industries and otherwise. 

 The very large employment of copper in the electrical field makes 

 it of no little interest to a branch of the india-rubber trade, and 

 from the recent increase in the uses of electricity it is safe to 

 predict that the insulation of copper wires with rubber will see 

 an even greater expansion. The statistical department is very 

 full, and no fewer than 6,767 copper mining companies, through- 

 out the world, are mentioned by name and details of interest 

 given in regard to them. The Copper Handbook appears 

 annually. 



TAPIOCA AS A CATCH-CKOP FOR PARA RUBBER. BY E. 

 Mathieu. Singapore: Straits Times Press, Limited. 1908. [Paper. 

 8vo. Pp. 34. Price, $1.] 



The author of this very practical brochure has had such 

 experience in planting in the Straits Settlements and Malaya as 

 to give him right to a 'hearing on the subject noted. The cultiva- 

 tion of tapicoca or manioc (Maiiihot uti!issim<i), which is of 

 not a little importance, centers largely in Malaya, and Mr. 

 Mathieu is convinced that its growth on the same premises with 

 Para rubber, already in progress, is bound to become very 

 profitable and to extend, in support of which belief he presents 

 detailed estimates. 



VERSLAG VAN HET CAOUTCHOUC-CONGRESS GEHOUDEN TE 

 Djeraber op 19, 20 en 21 October, 1907. Uitgegeven Door de Vereeniging 

 tot Bevordering van Landbouw en Nijverheid te Djember, met Mede- 

 ■ft'erking ven het Departement van Landbouw -te Buitenzorg. Batavia: 

 Landsdrukkerij. 1908. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. iv. -|- 175 + 23 plates.] 



This volume illustrates the thoroughness and painstaking 

 which characterize the work of the Dutch colonial authorities in 

 the East Indies, and likewise of the planters and others who 

 figure in the progress of the colonies. It is a report of the pro- 

 ceedings of a rubber congress held at Djember, in eastern Java, 

 under the auspices of the local association for the promotion of 

 agriculture and industry, with the cooperation of the agricultural 

 department at Buitenzorg. A total membership of 98 was regis- 

 tered, for the most part engaged practically in planting rubber, the 

 others being connected more or less directly with their interest — 

 members of scientific staffs and the like. The congress covered 

 a wide range, and the volume before us contains a synopsis of 

 the formal addresses and of the resulting discussions, together 

 with appendixes containing summaries of value, from various 



sources, supplementing the major part of the book. The sub- 

 jects ^covered embrace the suitability of the various rubber 

 species for cultivation under various conditions, cultural methods 

 for Hevea, Ficus, etc., tapping and coagulation processes, and 

 generally, the whole field of plantation rubber production, includ- 

 ing 'tree maladies and pests. The congress may be described aj 

 the most important that has yet been held in connection with 

 rubber, and its success doubtless had something to do with the 

 appointment of the Netherlands commission for the Interna- 

 tional Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition in London a year 

 later. 



LE CAOUTCHOUC ET SES ORIGINES. PAR DR. ROBERT HEN- 

 riques. Traduit de I'.AUemand par M. .'Xmedee Fayol. Paris: .'\ugustin 

 Qlallamel. 1909. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 48 + folding tables. Price, 3 

 francs.] 



CULTURE DU CAOUTCHOUC EN COLOMBIE. PAR DR. CARL OTTO 

 Weber. Traduit de I'Allemand par M. Amedee Fayol. Paris: Augustin 

 Challamel. 1909. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 56. Price, 2 francs.] 



The monograph on rubber and its sources, by the late Dr. 

 Henriques, was so comprehensive and so accurate that the trans- 

 lator into French has not deemed it necessary to make additions, 

 although the original appeared more than ten years ago. In this 

 shape it doubtless will prove of value to many persons to whom 

 French is more familiar than the original German. 



The second title relates to a translation of a report by the late 

 Dr. Weber, whose studies of rubber led him to make a visit to 

 South America, where he dealt with both wild and planted 

 rubber. These two brochures are recent additions to the valu- 

 able Bibliotheque d' Agriculture Coloniale published by Challamel. 



THE RUBBER INDUSTRY IN THE TERRITORIES OF MANICA 

 and Sofala. By W. H. Johnson, F. L. s. London: Whitehead, Morris 

 & Co., Limited. 1908. ["Paper. Large 8vo. Pp. 39. Price, i shilling.] 



Published for the Cia. de Mogambique, concessionaires of a 

 large district in Portuguese East Africa. Much forest rubber has 

 been obtained here, and plantations are being formed. 



AU PAYS DU CAOUTCHOUC. LE NORD DU BRESIL, LA REGION 

 de I'Amazonie, du Para, et de Matto-Grosso. L'Avinir du _ Pays — 

 I'Alliance des Peuples Latins. Par Paul Theodore- Vibert. Paris: So- 

 ciete des Etudes Portugaises. 1908. [Paper. i2mo. Pp. 18.] 



A LECTURE on the wealth in rubber of the Amazon, in Paris, 

 before the society named on the title page. 



OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. 



THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF STATIS- 

 tics of Labor and Industries of New Jersey. For the year ending Octo- 

 tier 31, 1908. Camden: Sinnickson Chew & Sons Co. 1909. [Cloth. 

 8vo. Pp. XI1-I-390-] 



TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF 

 Industrial Statistics [of Rhode Island], made to the General Assembly 

 at its January Session, 1909. Providence: E. L. Freeman Co. 1908. 

 [Cloth. 8vo. Pp. 1168.] 



THE VALORIZATION OF COFFEE IN BRAZIL. A LECTURE 

 Delivered Before the Members of the Antwerp Society for the Study of 

 Colonial Questions. By F. Ferreira Ramos, Civil Engineer, San Paulo. 

 Antwerp: T. E. Buschmann. 1907. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 208.] 



THE FOREIGN COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED 

 States, for the Year Ending June 30, 1908. (Department of Commerce 

 and Labor, Bureau of Statistics.) Washington: Government Prmtmg 

 Office. 190S. [aoth. 4to. Pp. 1222.] 



THE MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK. YEAR BOOK. 

 1909. New York: 1909. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 94.] 



RESULTS OF PURCHASING COAL UNDER GOVERNMENT SPECI- 

 fications. By John Shober Burrows. With a paper on Burning the 

 Small Sizes of Anthracite for Heat and Power Purposes. By Dwight 

 T. Randall (United States Geological Survey— Bulletin 378.) Wash- 

 ington: Government Printing Office. 1909. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 44.] 



IN CURRENT PERIODICALS. 



Note sur le "Chingane" arbre a Caoutchouc de I'Afrique Orientale 

 Portugaise. By A. de Saldanha e Castro. [Newly discovered tree, called 

 locally "chingane"; it is a question whether it is a new species of Mascaren- 

 liasia or only a variety of Mascarenhasia elastica, which yield the rubber 

 called "rugoa."]=/OMr»a/ d'Agriculture Tropicale, Paris. IX-93 (Mar. 31, 

 '09). Pp. 65-68. „ , 



L'Entretien du Sol dans Ics Plantations A'Hez'eas. By O. Labro^. [Deals 

 with keeping soil in condition. ]=/OMr«a/ d'Agriculture, Paris. IX-93 (Mar. 



kochmals die Zukunft des Para-Kautschuks am Amazonas. By D. Sand- 

 mann.=Oi7r Trapeitpflanccr, Berlin. XIII-4 (-'^pr. '09). Pp. 153-199. 



Termcs Gcstroi. By Walter Towgood. [Report on the white ait pest in 

 rubber plantations, which the author deems of importance and d imanding 

 prompt treatment, though affording no grounds for the alarmia- ;]=^gTt- 

 cuHural Bulletin, Singapore. VIII-3 (Mar. '09). Pp. 97-104. 



