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"xhibit No. 1 ie that the method indicated has been to a certain 
extent successful, even under extremely adverse circumstances. It 
will, however, be Ps xperts in England to point out the good and bad 
EUR of the EE and to declare the price that it ought to 
sag TuS in the English market. 
These rotes have been strictly limited to the beg quis of certain 
Aa to apply the method above described to the preparation of 
sidered as in any way final. They serye e. prove the possibility of 
ican 
market, and any question addr essed to me in writing will als 
wit Section, and wi Be answered as fully as my slight 
ALVAN MILLSON, 
Mr. Silver was kind enough to forward the samples of “ Abba” rubber 
to the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company, 
Limited, at Silvertown. 
The report received on the specimens is as follows :— 
Report on Frve SAMPLES of INDIA-RUBBER received from 
S. W. SiLvEn, Esq. 6th July 1 
'The samples are numbered in accordance with the report of 
Mr. az natty n. 
1 internally was dark in eolour, almost black, uin & bluish 
Tones xar graduall vanishing towards centre, which i arly white, 
Tt was strongly alkaline in patel, evidently due toa s little original 
tra 
0. 2, light eg € Ms i blackened about j inch in 
ink tint and vd ra facth alkaline. 
ade No. 1, No. 3, No. lw were treated in detail; the 
eg gi of the others being too small. Washing and dryi ying, No.1 
los e per eent. moisture, No, 3 lost 5 per cent, and No, 4 lost 
The AEEA of the drying room was that used for the usual 
descriptions of rubber, If the samples had been hung up as usually 
adopted, the want of strength and firmness would have “caused them to 
