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mt&oat specimens of the leaves, flowers and fruits of the various 

 useful plants. Before a herbarium was made here we did not 

 know what kind of trees produced the different timbers, native 

 drugs, dammars, resins, or rubbers, nor could we certainly 'identify 

 the plants producing them. The herbarium forms a reference 

 s nes by which not only can any useful plant be identified but we 

 can be certain of having got the plant wanted for any purpose, by 

 comparing specimens of it with those named in the herbarium, and 

 can know too where it can be found when required. 



Export of Rubber from Para and Manaos in 1906. 



The Cummi Zeitung gives some details aboi 

 Rubber from Para and Manaos in 1906 :— 



218,833 

 462,769 

 177-687 



3.360,331 

 8 '0,034 



2,481,587 

 694,827 



The tota 



The exp 



^ounted therefore in 1 gc€ to 15,774,840 lbs. against 15,388,797 lbs. 

 n '905, or an increase of 386,043 lbs., about one-fortieth or 2\ 

 V s? nt ' In ex pl anati o n of this increase it must be mentioned that 

 i-Ml lbs " remained at the end of 1905 to be shipped in 1906, 

 ] e at the end of 1906 only 231,300 lbs. remained unshipped. It 

 th m entioned in an earlier report on the rubber harvest of 1905-06 

 at the half year, January to June, 1906, shewed an increase of 

 , y - 2 °i lbs. over the corresponding period of the previous year. 

 i n Terence to this it may be remarked that on account of the 

 >- ner al shortness of money in Para and Manaos many middle-men 



" onailv 



vatched the work of rubber collecting in the forests 

 V; - t!v neater part of the time in order to safeguard their firms 

 * ar a as much as possible against pecuniary difficulties. Further 

 to the St -° red quiet in the collecting districts added not incon 

 hecPrJ nCrease ' ^hich might have continued into the Ja 



, er P eriod had not unrest occurred, which could 

 5° foreseen. While there was still an increase to record m July 

 IW£? St the production decreased from then onwards until in 

 mt *r there was an abatement of 3 1 7>°co lbs. This unexpected 



January 



