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around the trunk at three feet from the ground. I think this will 

 be hard to beat elsewhere in India or Ceylon. This is certainly 

 very good growth, and augurs well for the cultivation of this tree in 

 Southern India. 



H. N. R. 



RUBBER EXHIBITION IN CEYLON. 



The Rubber exhibition to be held at Peradeniya in Ceylon from 

 the 13th to the 27th September next ought to be an interesting one. 

 All kinds of things connected with rubber, samples of all kinds 

 machinery, etc. will be shown. It seems however a pity that the 

 exhibition should not be held in Colombo where it could be seen by 

 the travelling public who are passing through the port and who 

 would be unable to get inland as far as Peradeniya. Entries are to 

 be made to E. B. DENHAM, Esq., Secretariat, Colombo, before 



July 31. — Editor. 



NEW PAMPHLET ON RUBBER. 



A Compilation of Notes on India Rubber and G-utta Percha 



By Captain G. O. Ahern, 

 Director of Forestry, Manilla. 



This little pamphlet of 40 pages consists of a variety of extracts 

 from the India Rubber World, India Rubber Journal, Encyclopaedia 

 Britanica and a few other sources. It is in no sense an up-to-date 

 work on rubber planting. The notes are collected, says the author, 

 after a number of requests had been made to him for information 

 on the market and prospects of rubber in the Philippines, and the 

 notes may be useful to would be planters in the Philippines. No 

 information however as to trees in the Philippines is given. An 

 account of the licence system for jungle produce and a statement 

 of how public land may be acquired will be useful to those who 

 either engage in the trades of wild rubbers and gutta perchas or 

 intend to take up land. An extremely poor list of the really enor- 

 mous literature of India Rubber ends the pamphlet. And a map 

 of the islands is added showing the distribution of Gutta Percha 

 chiefly in Mindanao, and India Rubber chiefly in Mindoro, which 

 is probably (Lat. 13) too far north for Para Rubber. The best 

 chance for it would be the extreme south. 



H. N. R. 



TAPPING METHODS. 



Under the heading "Careful tapping in the Amazons valley" 

 Weekly Times of Ceylon, May 18, p. 12, is given an account of an 

 interview with Mr. WlCKHAM who condemns the herring-bone 



