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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[.March 1, 1914. 



The Obituary Record. 



DR. JACQUES HUBEK. 



WORD has been received by cable of the death at Para on 

 February 18 of Dr. Jacques Iluber, Director of the 

 Goeldi Museum and Botanical Garden of that city. 

 Xo details are given beyond the bare announcement of this most 

 regrettable event, which will mean such a loss to the rubber- 

 growing world of South America. 



Dr. Huber was a fine representative of the German element 



Dr. J.xcurt.-^ HuHtK. 



which for many years has been so dominant in Brazil and 

 has contributed so many leaders in the development of the 

 great South .American republic— another representative being 

 Dr. Lauro Muller. who was sent to the United States last 

 June on a special embassy by his country. 



Dr. Huber was for many years the director of the famous 

 botanical museum in Para, and he was considered not only the 

 foremost authority on the scientific aspects of rubber growing 

 in the Amazon valley but was perhaps more active than any 

 other oflicial in the attempt to reduce the wild chaos of Amazon 

 rubber production to some semblance of order and organization 

 so that it coidd meet the constantly growing rivalry of the 

 Far Fast. 



In the issue of The India Rubber World of Januar.\, 1898— 

 over 16 years ago — there appeared a translation of a lecture 

 which Dr. Huber had just delivered in the Para museum; and 

 from that time to the present his name has appeared very 

 frequently in these columns and many references have been 

 made to the work of South American rubber development in 

 which he was so diligently engaged. He will be remembered 

 by many Americans because of the extremely aljle and interest- 

 ing paper which he read at the Rubber Conference in New- 

 York in September. 1912, on "The Present and Future of the 

 Native //ciro Rubber Industry in Brazil." It was a compre- 

 hensive address and gave his hearers a better idea than they 

 had ever had before of the problem that the rubber interests of 

 Brazil were called upon to solve. He was also one of the prin- 

 cipal speakers at the banquet held at the conclusion of the 

 Rubber Exposition that took place jointly with the conference. 



In the spring of 1912. as a member of what was known as 

 the Akers Commission, he made an extended visit to the eastern 

 plantations and was received everywhere with distinguished 



courtesy. On his return tn I'ara he published a book giving 

 probably the best comparative survey of the rubber situation 

 in the .Xmazon and in the East that had ever been attempted. 

 His position was such an eminent one in the world of Amazon 

 rubber |)roduction that his loss to that interest appears irre- 

 parable. 



Personally, he was a delightful man. most modest and un- 

 assuming, notwithstanding his acknowledged scholarship and 

 .scientific attainments. He had many friends in the United 

 States and in Europe and in the Far and Middle East. In fact, 

 his acquaintance extended to every continent, wherever men 

 are interested in any phase of rubber — and his death will be 

 widely lamented. 



GEORIjE p. whitmore. 



George P. Whitmore, for many years one of the prominent 

 figures in the New England rubber trade, died at his residence 

 in West Newton, Massachusetts, on February 22, after an illness 

 of nearly a year. He was born in Boston, November 21, 1849, 

 and after graduating from the public schools went into busi- 

 ness at an early age. He was associated with the Boston Belting 

 Co. for 30 years, for the greater part of that time being the 

 secretary of the company. .Vbout U\f years ago he left this 

 position to become identified uith the Revere Rubber Co., of 

 Chelsea, Massachusetts. 



He was one of the active organizers of the New England 

 Rubber Club in 1900 and was its first treasurer, an onerous 

 position which he held most acceptably for a number of years. 

 He was also very active and prominent in Masonic circles, 

 having been District Deputy. Grand Master and Past Master of 

 Dalhousie Lodge, and was for many years president of the 

 Masonic Hall Association of Boston. He was married in 1877 

 to Miss Alice Eaton, of Hamilton, Ontario, who. with a daughter 

 and two sons, survives him. 



A testimonial which was presented to him by his fellow club 



George P. Whitmore. 



members when he resigned the position of treasurer in the 

 rubber club so fittingly expresses the esteem in which he was 

 held, not only in this club but in the trade generally, that it 

 may with propriety be quoted here: "By his genial presence, 

 sane counsel, modest manner and self-sacrificing attention to 

 detail, he has won the respect and love of all." 



