Jl'NE I, 1908.] 



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No. 17. Particularly adapted to softening material No. 48. For fluxing pigments in compounding. A 



for tubing machine. Almost universally used for valuable adjunct to the manufacture of moulded goods 

 waterproofing wire. | as it does not blow under cure. 



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SYNTHETIC ARYAN ELECTRICIAN ON RUBBER. 



[from the INDIA REVIEW. J 



jVylR. C. S. KARA VAN ASW.A^MY ALVAR, electrician, of 

 ^^ ^ Triplicane, Madras, writes to us: 



"The rubber expert in the Encyclopaedia Rritannica, writing on 

 the subject of gutta-percha, bemoans the loss of the gutta-percha 

 as they are being felled down and destroyed every year by some 

 tens of thousands. You say that T. C. Bridges says that there is 

 a colossal fortune awaiting the inventor who would find out a 

 perfect substitute for india-rubber or gutta-percha. 



"Well, sir, in my experience as a research student in synthetic 

 Aryan chemistry, I have come by the result that either rubber 

 or gutta-percha is precipitated froiu many of the milk giving in- 

 digenous, spontaneous, wild growing plants of the many of the 

 F.u^liorliiaccic, Asc!c[iiiidc(r and Uriicaccir genus. To whomso- 



ever it may be of interest to make out a commercial paying 

 business, I am prepared to demonstrate the same." 



BRIEF MENTION. 



Exports of balata from Liritish Guiana during the first 

 quarter of 190S were 88,594 pounds, against 106.605 pounds 

 same period last year. Rubber exports increased from 1,225 

 to 1,943 pounds. 



Mr. H. A. Wickhani, who was sent out from the Kew 

 Gardens in 1876-77 to Brazil, to secure seeds of the 

 Hcz-ca Brasilicnsis for introduction into the Far East — which 

 work resulted in the establishment of rubber culture in 

 Ceylon and Malaya — appears not to have lost his interest in 

 rubber. The Malay Mail reports that the state council of 

 Selangor has approved his application for a patent on "an 

 apparatus for curing india-rubber." 



Rubber Barracks. Bccco do Rosinho da Liberdade, ox the Riu Jukua. Brazil. 



