May 1, 1913] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 419 



THE COMMERCIAL NOMENCLATURE OF CRUDE and Noel Trotter, of the Rubber Growers' Association. Federated 

 RUBBER VARIETIES. Malay States.. 



Several meetings of the committee were held during the con- 



SUGGESTIONS MADE UV Till-; co.MMlTTi:i:s .\PPOINTED BY fcrence \veel<. and tentative lists covering both Plantation and 

 THE RUBBER ax^Bmj^A.MER.CA AND THE ,^,„,,o„ ^^..^^ .,,^,^ submitted. Those lists were no, published 



OT.,_ , . ■,-,,■,„,, '" these columns at the time, as it was hoped that further action 



Nt, of the most important topics discussed during the Rubber , . i . i .i u .. .i. i- ^ , 



r- ■ , , , V X- , , - ,, , . ... would soon be taken upon them, but as the lists, owing to the 



Lonlerencc held in iNew \ork last tall was the simp ihca- t ,. ^u ^ .\ u r »u v^ . ^ -j i 



,.,,,, , . ' . , fact that the members of the committee are at present so widely 



tion of crude rubber nomenclature. A committee was appointed, »i.ji ^^t -j-^ ir- 



, , , , , , T, , L V-, , r scattered, have not yet been revised, it may be of interest to 



consisting of three members named bv the Rubber Club of • .i . j » ^l ,i , ,-,, • ■ , 



. , ■ , , J , ' , r, , , ,- ,• many in the trade to see them, though still in tentative form. 



America and eight members named by the Rubber Conference, -r, r u 



.... , , . .,„ They are as follows : 



to consider this matter and make suggestions. 1 he members 



of this committee were as follows: middle east plantation sorts. 



From the Rubber Club of America. — Albert Zeiss of Arnold Scientific Names. Trade Names. 



& Zeiss, crude rubber brokers, of New York City; Arthur W. Malay Hevea Sheet (or biscuit) Rambong — Sheet 



Stedman, of New York Commercial Co., New York City, and " Smoked Sheet " Crepe 



William F. Bass, of the General Rubber Co., Sumatra and " Block " Ball 



New York. " 1st grade Crepe or blanket.... " Lumps 



From the Third International Rubber Conference. — Leonard " 2nd grade Crepe (Mottled).. " Scrap 



Wray, commissioner for the Governments of British Malaya " 3rd grade Crepe (Brown) Manihot — Sheet 



and Straits Settlements; F. Crosbie-Roles, Ceylon; Cyril E. S. " 4th grade Crepe (Black) " Crepe 



Baxendale, Federated Malay States; Dr. Jacques Ruber, of " Scrap (untreated) " Scrap 



Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil; Wilbur A. Anderson, official com- (Or Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Burma. India, etc.) 



mifsioner from Hawaii; Henry C. Pearson, editor of The India The following list of names for .Amazonian rubbers was sub- 



RuBBER World, New York ; Dr. J. C. Argollo, State of Bahia, mitted : 



AMAZONIAN RUBBERS. 



SciENTiFir Names. Trade Names. 



(A.) AMAZONIAN HEVEA RUBBER. 

 1. .Amazonian Hevea Brasiliensis rubber. 



.Amazonian smoked Hevea Brasiliensis rubber Amazonian fine Hevea 



Upriver Sorts: Upriver 



Bolivian smoked Hevea Brasiliensis rubber Bolivian fine 



Peruvian " " " " Peruvian fine 



Acre " " " " , Acre fine 



Matto Grosso " " " Matto Grosso fine 



I Javary " " " Amazonas fine 



Amazonas -I Jurua " " " (Javary, Purus, Jurua, 



[ Madeira, etc. " " Madeira, etc.) 



Middle River Sorts: 



Tapajos J smoked Hevea Brasiliensis rubber Tapajos fine 



V f upper „ „ „ ,, 



Xmgu ," Xngufine 



( lower ^ 



Islands Sorts: 



Para Islands smoked Hevea Brasiliensis rubber Islands fine (extra dry 



common) 



Badly smoked .Amazonian Hevea " " Medium or extra fine 



Coagulated Sorts: 



Matto Grosso alum coagulated H. Bras, rubber Matto Grosso Virgin 



Para spontaneously coagulated " " " Cameta 



H. Bras, rubber, prepared by the process of Cerqueira Pinto Cerqueira Pinto's extra fine 



Hevea 

 Air Dried Sorts: 



Upriver air dried Hevea Brasiliensis rubber Upriver coarse 



Para " " " Islands coarse 



(Scrap and Negrohead) 



AMAZONIAN HF.VEA RUBBER FROM OTHER SPECIES THAN HEVEA BRASILIENSIS. 



Smoked Sorts: Weak fine Hevea 



Rio Negro smoked weak Hevea rubber Rio Negro weak fine 



(dififerent species) (diflFerent grades) 



Peruvian smoked weak Hevea rubber Peruvian weak fine (Mollendo 



Peruvian dibil) 



Bolivian (Sorata) (H. Peruvian 1st grade) Bolivian weak fine 



Purus smoked weak Hevea rubber Purus weak fine 



Para " " " " Para weak fine 



(from H. Guayanensis) 



