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But there are trees of exceptional size furnishing much more 

 latex. He heard from a Cauchero that one of his workmen came 

 back from an excursion in the woods and said that he had found 

 the mother of Caucho, a tree of such extraordinary dimension that 

 no native dared to tap it. Finally when it was tapped it did not 

 yield less than 231 lbs. of Rubber. Prom the India Rubber World.) 



The size of these extraordinary trees is not mentioned, but they 

 must be truly gigantic. — Ed. 



RUBBER NEWS PROM MANAOS. 



Air. L. GARNIER writes from Manaos " as to exhaustion Caucho 

 is done lor as far as the Uppir Amazon is concerned and there is 

 very little left in Bolivia or in Peru. There still exist however 

 immense tracts of Caucho bearing land in Colombia, Ecuador and 

 Venezuela and in Matto Grosso (Brazil . 



Rubber (i.e., Para rubber) too. is gradually being exhausted and 

 in my opinion unless serious steps are taken by the Government to 

 protect the rubber trees in another twenty years it will be all over 

 with the rubber industry in Amazonas. 



You may expect to hear of considerable tracts of rubber produc- 

 ing country in Colombia being opened up. I refer to the Putumayo 

 or lea river district which has a potential of 1,300 tons of rubber 

 per annum not counting Caucho or Balata in the parts already ex- 

 plored although in consequence of international squabbling it is not 

 yet opened out. There are enormous tracts of Rubber on the Alto 

 Maraonu which however will not be of any commercial importance 

 for many years on account of the Indians. " 



"India Rubber World." 



NOTES FROM THE BULLETIN OP THE 

 IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 



The Bulletin of the Imperial Institute are published as a supple- 

 ment to the Board of Trade Journal at the price of one pennv. 

 They contain accounts of the work of that institute and reports on 

 the investigations on colonial products carried out in the laboratory, 

 many of which are of the greatest interest to planters and merchants 

 of the East. 



The work done lately in the Court devoted to the Straits Settle- 

 ments and British North Borneo is described as follows: — 



Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States — Considerable 

 progress has been made in the re-organisation of this Court, on a 

 plan prepared last year by Professor DUNSTAN, which was approved 

 by the Government of the Straits Settlements, by whom the work 

 ot collecting and preparing in the Colony the new exhibits required 

 was entrusted to Mr. H. N. RlDLliY, M.A., Director of Botanic Gar- 



