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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1910. 



Damn's patented Fumero. On the right is an earthen pot for smoking rubber. Rio Negro Rubber — Hall of 700 kilograms; probably from Hevea GvayenSiS. 



other delegates. The Association placed a motor car at Mr. 

 Pearson's disposal, and arranged launch trips to nearby rubber 

 estates, visits to the new experiment station at Bosque, and a 

 formal call from the Governor, who is much interested in rubber 

 planting. 



A luncheon given to the Editor of The India Rup,ber World 

 by President Scholz at the Restaurante Francois was attended by 

 several leading delegates of the Congress, the Mayor 1 f .Manaos, 

 and members of the rubber trade. 



On the morning of his departure down the Amazon a number 

 of delegates, business men and journalists gathered on the pier 

 to wish him bon voyage and to impart to him the vote of thanks 

 passed by the Congress for his services in helping to make it a 

 success. 



Mr. Pearson, on leaving Manaos, presented to Dr. Huber, for 

 the Museu Goeldi, two complete sets of lantern slides, one 

 showing rubber planting in the Far East, and the other exteriors 

 of the great American rubber factories, together with typical views 

 showing processes of rubber manufacture in the United States. 



A GOOD RUBBER EXHIBITION. 



The Exposicao de Borracha (rubber exhibition) held in con- 

 nection with the Congress, in the great hall on the ground floor 

 of the State library, was opened formally on the morning of 

 February j^. in the presence of Governor Bittencourt, music 

 being supplied by a military band. The hall, in itself attractive, 

 was full of tastefully arranged samples of different kinds of rub- 

 ber, and objects connected with rubber production. There was 

 embraced a collection of books and journals devoted to india- 

 rubber ; the walls were decorated with maps of Amazonian 

 rivers and rubber producing districts in Ceylon and Malaya ; and 

 there were photographs of seringaes and rubber plantations illus- 

 trating, among other things, processes of preparing rubber. 



In the collections of rubber in the center of the hall were 

 samples of rubber from the various rivers of the Amazon, from 

 Ceylon, Malay peninsula, Java, Borneo, Mozambique, the Congo, 

 Sumatra, Soudan. Gambia, Massai, and Angola. Six qualities of 

 india-rubber were exhibited by the chamber of commerce of Lo- 

 reto, in Peru, including samples from the rivers Napo, Alto 



[From left to right. 1 I. Curios and Varied Exhibits. On the upper 

 shelf are sheet iron smoking cones now used in the place of earthen smok- 

 ing cones. Used in smoking Para rubber. II. Montiero Da Costa's 



VIEWS FROM THE RUBBER EXHIBITION' AT MAN'Aos 



rubber prepared like Ceylon (Madeira River). III. Ceylon and Other 

 Foreign Rubbers. 



Photos by G. Huebner & Amaral, 



