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ing presses, vacuum drying presses; tools and estate req- 

 uisites; a model of the Kearney High Speed Railway; and 

 general estate machinery. 



Scientific section. 



The Scientific section included laboratory apparatus 

 and appliances for testing and analysing rubber and rubber 

 goods, and scientific instruments. 



Literature was adequately represented by the technical 

 journals of England, America, France, Holland, and Ger- 

 many, and books dealing with every branch of the industry 

 were abundant. 



Conferences. 



During the exhibition conferences were held by the 

 delegates from nearly all European countries, and America, 

 and a very full and complete programme of the industry in 

 all its phases was got through, but as the proceedings will 

 shortly be published I will only refer to one result — by 

 general consent — here, viz: — the impossibility of synthetic 

 rubber under existing conditions. 



Scientific Section. 



From the Royal gardens at Kew an interesting group 

 of rare and new rubber specimens, and samples, was 

 shown, as well as two Wardian cases of Para seedlings, 

 packed in the same way as in 1876, when the first plants of 

 Hevea braziliensis were sent to the East. 



Conclusion. 



It is proposed to hold another exhibition in London two 

 years hence, or in 1910, which speaks well for the success of 

 the first International Exhibition, that success was largely, 

 if not entirely due, to the development of cultivated rubber, 

 and this — it was acknowledged by the American and Con- 

 tinental delegates — owes its position to British enterprise. 



R. Derry, 

 Co-Commissioner for Malaya. 



18th January, 1909. 



MALAYA PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Minutes of Meeting of the Planters 1 Association of 

 Malava, held at the Mess-House, Seremban, at 10 a.m., on 

 December 6th, 1908. 



