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_ .--production with an 

 array of figures in which the wild sources are to supply as much 

 for the next ten years as they do now, in spite of the fact that 

 they are diminishing rapidly, and estimating that the 250,000 acres 

 under rubber in Indo- Malaya will be in bearing in 1915, which is 

 impossible as Mr. Zacharias points out. The report concludes 

 with pointing out not only how successful the Exhibition was and 

 how well carried out, but its immense value in measuring the 

 distance that the industry has accomplished, and showing what has 

 been done and what has yet to be done, and all who have been 

 there or read the reports of the meeting must fully endorse this. 



THE CEYLON RUBBER EXHIBITION, 1906, 



By J. C. Willis. 

 Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. 

 An extremely successful Exhibition of Rubber has lately been 

 held (September 13th— 27th) in the Royal Botanic Gardens at 

 Perademya, Ceylon, and marks a distinct stage in the progress of 

 this great new industry, an industry which owes its inception and 

 progress entirely to the forethought and aid of scientific men at the 

 v arious Botanic Gardens of Kew, Ceylon and Singapore. 



Extensive buildings were erected in the Kandyan (or Sinhalese 

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the Malay Peninsula, and India, tools for the tapping and collecting 

 besides exhibits of raw rubbers from all corners of the globe. Two 

 !u Were als ° fiHed with machinery for the treatment of the 

 as well. 



We d,, 



1 the exhibit 



the . pTr y . e t- S ? g ^ there was Poetically no rubber in cultivation o; 

 - luliveiy aTtenSTo.^erS' ^ ^ that is »™ alm0Sl 

 obtain, and though a small -boom" 

 ^'fa" 'o \ 9 9 ' SUPply ° f S6ed - 



i.°K k, ' °° aCreS ' ln Mala ya about 60,000, and in other countries 



hammer and chisel 1 



Mex 

 apping the 



