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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1902. 



LITERATURE OF INDIA-RUBBER. 



LES PI. ANTES A CAOUTCHOUC ET I.EUR CULTURE. PAR LR PRO- 

 fesseur Dr. O. Warburg, direcieur <iu Tropenpjlanzfr. Traduction compliit^e 

 et annot(5e par J. Vilbouchevitcli, directeur du Journal d' Agriculture Tropi- 

 calf. Paris : Augustin Cliallamel. 1902. [Paper. 8v<) Pp. xvi I 507. Price 9 

 francs.] 



THIS work appeared originally as a compilation of articles 

 contribu ed by Dr. Warburg, an eminent German botan- 

 ist, to the monthly issues of Der Tropenpflamer (Berlin), of 

 which he is the editor. In this form it was noticed in The In- 

 dia Rubber World of March i, 1900. It embraced in con- 

 cise shape a valuable fund of information, gleaned with much 

 painstaking from every available authority. In presenting the 

 French edition now before us, not only has M. Vilbouchevitch 

 proved a most capable translator, but he has availed of his 

 wide knowledge of his subject to augment to an important 

 degree the stock of information pertaining to rubber, particu- 

 larly where opportunities existed for the introduction of later 

 discoveries. The number of pages has thus been doubled— 

 though the contents of each are somewhat smaller— and the 

 number of illustrations has been increased from 9 to 26. There 

 are chapters on the world's production and consumption of 

 rubber, and on the leading rubber yielding species— the rub- 

 bers of Para, Central America, Africa, the East Indies, and so 

 on. The botanical information is presented with much care, 

 with notes on the quality of the various products, the amount 

 of yield, the conditions favorable to growth, and methods of 

 planting and of collecting rubber. The statistical summary in 

 the opening chapter is the most comprehensive, with the addi- 

 tion of M. Vilbouchevitch's notes, that has yet appeared. It 

 is pleasing to The India Rubber World to notice the num- 

 ber <• f references co the statistical data that have appeared in 

 our pages. 



LE CAOUTCHOUC BRUT ET SES TRANSFORMATIONS EN CAOUT- 

 chouc Manufacture. Par Henry C.Pearson, Editeurdu The India Rubber 

 World, traduit et adapts par G. Laniy-Torrilhon, fabricant de Caoutchouc, 

 etc. Pans: J. Fritsch, 1902. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 239.] 



This is a translation of the whole of Mr. Pearson's work, 

 "Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients," a textbook 

 of the rubber manufacture. The translation and the general 

 adaptation of the book to the needs of French workers in rub- 

 ber, have been most capably done by a gentleman who is not 

 only a practical manufacturer of repute, but is also the author 

 of a standard work on " Le Caoutchouc et h Gutta-percha." 

 In an introduction to this translation, by the author of the 

 original edition, reference is made to the indebtedness of the 

 rubber industry as a whole to the work of French scientists, 

 from the first discovery of Caoutchouc, by the geographer La 

 Condamine, and including many chemists of note. It may be 

 added that the fact that this work, designed primarily for use 

 in American factories, has been deemed worthy, in France, of 

 translation into the language of that country, in order to bring 

 it within the reach of rubber workers there, is evidence that 

 the best practice in the rubber industry is universal, instead of 

 having peculiarities local to each manufacturing country. 

 IN CURRENT PERIODICALS. 



La Caoutchouc au Soudan. By E. D. W [ildetnan], [Summary of 

 a report by H. Hamet on methods of coagulation.] = .ff«//^/!« de la 

 Soci^ti d'lltudes Coloniaies, Brussels. VIII 12 (December, igoi.) pp. 



851-855. 



Extract from Report of Mr. R. Derry, Superintendent of Government 

 Plantations, Perak, for the year 1900 (on the yield of Hevea and other 

 rubber species, under cu\\\v3Ll\on.)=^gricu/tiiral £n/le/hi of the Sirails, 

 Singapore. I-r (October, 1901.) pp. 1924. 



Caucho. By Frederico Martinez de Castro. [Recommends the plant- 

 ing of Caslilloa elastica in Q.w\>3.,\^Revista de Agricultura, Havana. 

 XVI-i 5 (September I, 1901.) pp. 233-235. 



Observations sur les Arbres i Caoutchouc de la Ri-gione Amazonienne 

 By Dr. Jacques Huber, chief of the botanic section of the Para Museum. 

 [An enumeration and description of the Amazon rubber species, includ- 

 ing some recently identified for the first time.] = /i'^t/«<r des Cultures 

 Coloniaies, Paris. X-gs, q6 (February 20, March 5, ig02.) pp. 97- 



105; 133-I39- 



Quelques mots a propos du Futitumia elastica. By Dr. E. De Wild- 

 man. [A contribution to the nomenclature of rubber species formerly 

 comprised in the genus Kic kxia .\^=^ Kevtie des Cultures Coloniaies, Paris. 

 X-q4 (February 5. igo2.) pp. 74 76. 



De oogst van Caoutchouc in Brazilie. [The cultivation of rubber in 

 Brazil. From the Bulletin of the society of commercial geography of 

 Paris. ]=/)(■ Indische Mercuur, Amsterdam. XXV-3 (January 21, ig02.) 



pp. 43-44- 



On the resistance of Dielectrics, and the Effect of an Alternating 

 Electromotive Force on the Insulating Properties of India-rubber. By 

 A. W, Ashton, B. %c^Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 

 London. II-ii (November, igoi.) pp. 501-523. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



A TEXT BOOK OF COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY. BY CYRUS C. ADAMS, 

 B.A., F.A.G.s. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 1901. [Cloth. i2nio. Pp. 

 505. Price $1.30, net.] 



A KNOWLEDGE of commercial geography has become more 

 and more essential to international trading, with the growing 

 keenness of competition in all the world's markets. This little 

 volume is admirably adapted to give the first suggestions of 

 natural or physical causes, and their effects, in the develop- 

 ment of commerce, to the reader who has not before studied 

 such subjects. Because certain goods sell freely in one coun- 

 try, it does not follow that they will be equally in demand in all 

 others, just as the natural products of different regions vary ; 

 even political and religious peculiarities of a race or nation will 

 influence its commercial methods. Such considerations are 

 treated in this book, together with details of the character and 

 extent of the products and imports of every country, as well as 

 the soil, climate, means of transportation, and the like. A 

 copious index enables one readily to referto whatever the book 

 may contain on any subject ; there are, for example, 19 refer- 

 ences to India-rubber. The author, a member of the New York 

 Sun's editorial staff for twenty years, has contributed to that 

 journal many informing articles on geographical subjects and 

 on colonial development, besides which he has been an active 

 member of several geographical societies. This book is a 

 crystalization of his work in these channels for a long period. 

 While issued in Appleton's series of " Twentieth Century Text 

 Books," for school room use, it is suited for general reading 

 and reference, for which purpose it is additionally valuable by 

 reason of the number and excellence of its maps. 



TRADE-MARKS REGISTERED IN U. S. PATENT OFFICE FOR BOOTS, 

 Shoes and Lasts, Leather and Saddlery, and Rubber Goods. Compiled and 

 Published by Fowler & Bryson, Patent, Trade-mark, and Copyright Lawyers, 

 Bank of Commerce Building, St. Louis, Mo. [1901] [Paper. 8vo. 109 pp.] 



This pamphlet contains a list, under the various classes 

 named in its title, of registered trade-marks, expressed in the 

 same style as the mention of trade-marks relating to rubber 

 published monthly in The India Rubber World in our 

 record of patents. There are 262 rubber trade marks listed in 

 the book, and the book will prove of interest and value to those 

 who are thinking of having trade-marks registered, in helping 

 them to avoid duplicating marks already on record. 



Bolivia : Its Position, Products, and Prospects. London : Privately 

 Published. 1901. [i2mo. pp. 26 + map.] 



Bee- Keeping in the West Indies, By W. K, Morrison. [Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture for the West Indies. Pamphlet No. 9] 

 [Barbados] : 1901. [i6mo pp. 73.] 



Jaaroverzichten betreflende den handel in koloniale producten, 1901. 

 Amsterdam : J. H. de Bussy, 1902. 70 pp.-f-folding tables. 



