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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1912. 



The Imperial Institute at the N. Y. Rubber Exposition. 



GREAT interest has been aroused by the announcement that 

 the directors of the Imperial Institute of London have 

 consented to send to the Rubber Exposition, to be held in 

 New York in September, an extremely fine collection of rub- 

 ber grown in every British rubber-producing country, in charge 

 of a special commission. 



The Imperial Institute is one of the most important institu- 

 tions of the British Empire. It was founded by the late King 

 of England and His Majesty King George V. is at the head of 

 it. The products and resources of the British Empire are shown 

 at the Institute, and His Majesty has permitted the director. 

 Prof. Wyndham Dunstan, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., to prepare an 

 exhibit for the New York exhibition. 



The object of this exhibit is to illustrate the rubber resources 

 of the British Empire by means of specimens from the col- 

 lections of the Imperial Institute. The exhibit includes (1) herba- 

 lium specimens of the principal rubber-yielding plants and (2) 

 representative samples of rubber from the following countries : 

 India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, 

 British North Borneo, Papua, Fiji, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold 

 Coast, Northern Nigeria, Southern Nigeria, Anglo-Egyptian 

 Sudan, Uganda, East Africa Protectorate, Zanzibar, Nyasaland, 

 Natal, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Seychelles, British Guiana, British 

 Honduras, Jamaica, Trinidad, Dominica, St. Lucia and Bahamas. 



The section devoted to each country will be provided with a 

 descriptive label giving general information regarding the rub- 

 ber-yielding plants which are indigenous to, or are being culti- 

 vated in, the country, and statistics of the rubber production dur- 

 ing the last ten years. 



The Institute's contribution to the Exposition will include the 

 following : 



LIST OF EXHIBITS. 

 I.— HERBARIUM SPECIMENS OF RUBBER PLANTS. 

 Hevea Brasiliensis, the Para rubber tree. 

 Manihot Glaziovii, the Ceara rubber tree. 

 Castilloa elastica, the Central American rubber tree. 

 Funtumia elastica, the West African rubber tree. 

 Landolphia Owariensis,^ 



Landolphia HendeloHi, j. African rubber vines. 

 Landolphia Kirkii, j 



African shrubs yielding root-rubber. 



Landolphia Thollonii, 1 



Clitandra HenriqiiesianaA 



Carpodinus hirsuta, African vine yielding paste rubber. 



Mascarenhasia elastica, the Mgoa rubber tree of East Africa. 



Sapium Jenmani, the Sapium rubber tree of British Guiana. 



Forsteronia Floribtuida, Jamaica rubber vine. 



Alstonia phtmosa, Fiji rubber vine. 



II.— RUBBER SPECIMENS. 

 INDIA. 

 Ficus elastica rubber — Block, Scrap. 

 Para rubber — Biscuits. 

 Ceara rubber — Biscuits. 

 Castilloa rubber — Sheets. 

 Cryptostegta grandiAora rubber — Lump. 



CEYLON. 



Para rubber — Biscuits, Sheets, Crepe, Block. 

 Ceara rubber — Biscuits, Sheets. 

 Castilloa rubber — Biscuits, Sheets. 



STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



Para rubber — Biscuits, Sheets, Crepe. 

 Ficus elastica rubber — Crepe, Sheets. 



Willughbeia firma rubber (Gutta Gerip) — Crepe. 



Gutta Percha — Gutta Taban Merah {Palaquium Gutta). 



BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 



Para rubber — Sheet. 



Gutta Percha— Gutta Merah, Gutta Tagah, Gutta Lichak. 



FIJI. 



Alstonia phtmosa rubber. 



PAPUA. 



Ficus Riga rubber. 

 Vine rubber. 



GAMBIA. 



Landolphia Hcudclotii rubber — Balls. 

 Ficus Vogelii rubber — Balls, Lump. 



SIERRA LEONE. 



Funtumia elastica rubber — Lump, Sheets. 

 Landolphia rubber — Balls. 



GOLD COAST. 



Funtumia elastica rubber — Lump, Biscuits. 

 Landolphia Ozvariensis rubber — Balls. 

 Ficus Vogelii rubber — Biscuits. 

 Para rubber — Biscuits. 



SOUTHERN NIGERIA. 



Funtumia elastica rubber — Lump, Biscuits. 

 Landolphia Ozvariensis rubber — Balls (Lagos Niggers). 

 Para rubber — Biscuits, Scrap. 

 Ceara rubber — Biscuits, Balls, Scrap. 

 Ficus elastica rubber — Biscuits. 



NORTHERN NIGERIA. 



Funtumia elastica rubber — Lump. 



Landolphia rubbers — Cluster rubber. White ball rubber, 

 rubber, Jan Donko (Red rubber), White flake rubber. 



SUDAN. 



Landolphia Owariensis (var. iomentcUa) — Biscuits, Balls. 

 Ceara rubber — Sheets. 



UGANDA. 



Funtumia elastica rubber — Biscuits, Sheets. 



Landolphia Dawei rubber — Biscuits, Crepe. 



Clitandra Orientalis rubber — Biscuits, Sheets, Crepe, Balis. 



Para rubber — Biscuits, Crepe, Scrap. 



Ceara rubber — Crepe. 



EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE. 



Landolphia Kirkii rubber — Balls. 

 Landolphia Ugandensis rubber — Balls. 

 Mascarenhasia elastica rubber — Balls. 

 Ceara rubber — Sheets. 



NYASALAND. 



Landolphia Kirkii rubber — Balls. 

 Ceara rubber — Biscuits, Balls. 



ZANZIBAR AND PEMBA. 



Landolphia Kirkii rubber — Balls. 



Mascarenhasia elastica rubber — Balls. 



Para rubber. 



Ceara rubber. 



Castilloa elastica rubber. 



TRANSVAAL. 



Landolphia rubber — Scrap. 

 Conopharyngia elegans — Block. 



Vine 



