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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



FSeptember I, 1905. 



FISHERIES 

 EXHIBITION. 



times in the cotton trade of which sn much has been heard are 

 not universal in Lancashire. It is only in particular districts 

 that much money has been made and now in these we are at 

 the time of writing threatened with a strike of such magni- 

 tude as must assuredly atlect the general prosperity of the 

 country to a serious extent — supposing it comes to fruition. 



TilK retirement of Mr. J. K. Burbridge from the firm of Messrs. 

 Wilham Warne & Co., Limited, of Tottenham, has caused sur- 

 prise among his numerous acquainlance? , 



MB. J. K. BURBRIDQE. , , , , . . j i j 



and Iriends in the rubber trade. 1 under- 

 stand that he is farming in Australia, though have no definite 

 information whether it was a breakdown in health which caused 

 him to transfer his energies to so widely different and distant a 

 field. Mr. Burbridge studied chemistry in Germany and had 

 control of the laboratory at Messrs. Warnes. Of late he had 

 acted as an abstractor for ihc Journal oi the Society of Chemi- 

 cal Industry as regards foreign contributions to the chemistry 

 of India-rubber and Gutta-percha. The emoluments of such 

 work are only trifling, but it keeps the abstractor up to date 

 with research. 1 imagine the E^ditor will find some difficulty in 

 getting a successor to men like Dr. Weber and Mr. Burbridge, 

 who combined literary attainments with scientific and technical 

 knowledge. 



There is hardly anything to attract the attention of the rub- 

 ber manufacturer at this exhibition, the main object of which 

 after all is to provide people with an open air 

 NAVAL lounge. The Cape Asbestos Co. have a good 

 show of their various manufactures, and it is 

 evident that this industry is making rapid strides 

 in the Colony. It is claimed for the blue asbestos that it has 

 great elasticity and is superior to white asbestos both with re- 

 gard to liability to sag and in being quite rot proof. Its chief 

 use seems to lie in mattresses for steam boilers, the loose fiber 

 being placed between two layers of cloth and stitched through. 



The London address of the company is 8, Minories, E. C. 



James Walher & Co., of the Lion Works, Garford street. West 

 India Dock road, London, show a good assortment of their 

 " Lion " packings, jointings, etc., for high pressure steam. In 

 the " Wallics " sheet jointing a steel wire gauze is covered on 

 both sides with a jointing material of the finest quality. The 

 sheet jointing is a combination of woven wire and heat-and- 

 water-resisting material. Considering the importance of high 

 pressure packings on steam vessels, it is somewhat surprising 

 that other makers have not exhibited, especially as a good deal 

 of energy has been expended in England during the last two or 

 three years in producing packings on American lines. 



COLONIALand Indian produce in great variety is to be seen this 

 summer at the Crystal Palace, London, and naturally raw rubber 

 is to be seen in the West African exhibits. Among 

 THE the Gold Coast samples is the soft Akini from 



the Funtumia tlastica, the pure rubber and 

 that which has been mixed with spurious rubber 

 juices being shown. White Krepi ball fr<om the LandolpJtia 

 owariensis is also shown. This rubber is coagulated either by 

 lime juice or by rolling on the body of the collector. Some 

 thin sheets of Pard buscuit are to be seen, and the visitor is noti- 

 fied that although this plantation grown rubber is not yet on 

 the market local reports are to the elTect that its cultivation 

 promises well. Samples of Salt Pond nigger and hard As- 

 hanti lump are also shown, as well as herbarium specimens of 

 the principal native rubber trees and the instruments used by 

 the collectors. It struck me that the exposure of the rubber to 

 the sun's rays might account for the sticky appearance of some 

 of the samples, and on my mentioning this to the attendant in 

 charge he said that the particular samples had already done 



COLONIAL 

 EXHIBITION, 



duty at the St. Louis exhibition, so it is not surprising that they 

 show deterioration. The rubber exhibits at the Southern 

 Nigeria stand comprised Calabar lump niggers and ball, Beniu 

 lump rubber and root rubber, and attention is drawn to the 

 fact that the Forestry department is well organized, 214 planta- 

 tions having been made last year, containing over 227,000 ycurg 

 rubber trees. Both the Funtumia and the Landolphia are 

 found all over the protectorate, the exports being chiefly made 

 from the factories on the Niger at Calabar and Siluko. Prom- 

 inent among rubber trading firms are John Holt & C".. Onit- 

 sha, and Alexander Miller, Brothers & Co.= = The West In- 

 dian and Trinidad stands show an interesting collection of va- 

 rious animals made from Balata on sale at ^s. 6d. each. These, 

 of course, represent native handicraft. I am not aware that Ba- 

 lata has come into competition with rubber in the European 

 rubber toy manufacture. 



LITERATURE OF INDIA-RUBBER. 



DAILY CONSULAR REPORTS. NO. 2,o<,. WASHINGTON : JULY 15, 1905. 

 [Includine '' New Source of Rubber." By Louis H. Ayme. United Stales con- 

 sul at Par.'i, Brazil.] Svo. Pp. 3-13. 



MR. CONSUL AYME'S report was reproduced in The 

 India Rubber World of August i (page 365). The 

 accompanying reports on the rubber producing Sapiuin species 

 discovered lately on the Amb/on and referred to in the issue 

 above noted, appear in lull in this official publication. 



DEUX NOUVELLES I'LANTES a caoutchouc DE MADAGASCAR. 

 Par H. Jumelle. (Extract from the journal Le Caoutchouc ft ta Gutta- 

 percha.) Paris: 1905. LSvo. Pp. 15.] 



Relates (i) to a tree of the natural order Euphorbiactce, in 

 the Ambongo region, known locally as " pirahazo " and desig- 

 nated by the author Euphorbia pirahazo, and (2) to a liane in 

 the south of Menabe, known to the natives as " vahimainty," 

 both being of economic value. 



IN CURRENT PERIODICALS. 



Arvores de Borracha e de Balata da Regiao Amazonica. By Dr. 

 Jacques Huber, chief of the botanic section of the Para Museum. [Notes 

 on newly designated species of Sapiiim ; also on the species locally known 

 as " Mac;.iranduba " and " Maparajuba," which are identified with the 

 genus Mimusops, to which belongs the Balata yielding trees of Venezuela 

 and the Giiianas ; see The India Ruhker World, August i, 19(15 — 

 page 'it'^,\= BoUtim do Mitseu GfeUii {Afiiseu Paraenstr), Paia. lV-2-3 

 (December, 1904). Pp. 415 437. 



E.\traction and Preparation of Rubber. [A resume of results from 

 various methods, particularly in relation to Caslilloa t/astica ]= IVfst In- 

 dian Bulletin, Barbados. V-3 (ig04). Pp. 210-M3. 



Der Guayule und Seine Wirtschaftliche Bedeutung. By Dr. Rudolf 

 Endlich. [A comprehensive report on a Mexican rubber producing 

 plant and its exploitation to i2Ae.'\ — Dtr Tropenppianzer, Berlin. IX-s 

 (May, rgos). Pp. 233-247. 



Cacao sous Ombre de Caslilloa. By P. Cibot. [Observations on the 

 hacienda of General Don Raimundo Fonseca, in Venezuela. J^/owrHfl/; 

 d' Agriculliirt Ttopicalc, Paris. V.47 (May 31, 1905.) Pp. 141-143. 



Ueber Kautschuk- und Guttaperchakultur in Deutschen Kolonien. 

 By Professor Dr. Paul Preuss. [A comprehensive summary of progress 

 in various districts in planting different species, and of results attained 

 to date.] = /)^r Troptnpjlanzer, Berlin. IX-6 (June, 1905). Pp. 297- 

 307. 



The Future .Supply of India Rubber. By H. L. Terry, F. i. c, A. i. 

 M. M. [A discussion of the outlook for planted rubber, and the effect 

 upon prices. ]= /"/ic £/«/r(Va/ AVz';>», London. LVII-1443 (July 21, 

 1905). Pp. 122-123 



Einige Bemerkungen iiber Anlage von Kautschukpflanzungen, mit 

 besonderer Beriicksichtigung von Ilollandisch-Borneo. By C. Boehmer. 

 [With 5 illustrations.] = Z)f/- Troptnpjlanzir, Berlin I\ » (August, 

 1905). Pp. 438-450. 



