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Scale insects (Cbccidae) do not seem to have done much 

 harm in Ceylon. A bagworm is also mentioned as attack- 

 ing the leaves, but no caterpillar seems to actually like 

 Hevea leaves, though occasionally a few having exhausted 

 their food plant will have a try at the Para rubber trees. 

 The slugs in Ceylon apparently confine their attentions to 

 the latex in the wounds of the tree. One given a saucer of 

 latex drank it for ten minutes and was none the worse. 

 Here they attack the leaf buds of the trees even climbing 

 up to the top of the big trees. 



Ed. 



A REMARKABLY PROLIFIC COCONUT. 



Plate II. 



With this number we give a photograph of an exceed- 

 ingly prolific coconut tree grown on Klanang Estate, Jugra 

 in Selangor. The tree is only eleven years old and the total 

 number of nuts on the tree at the time at which the photo- 

 graph was taken was more than three hundred and sixty. 

 I imagine that there are few coconut trees that can beat this 

 record. 



The coconut industry is one of the most important and 

 valuable ones, and it is gratifying to be able to show that 

 it is not only in rubber that the Malay Peninsula comes well 

 to the front. 



For the photograph and notes on this remarkable tree 

 we are indebted to Mr. Gallagher. 



Ed. 



REPORT OF THE WELLCOME RESEARCH 

 LABORATORIES AT KHARTOUM. 



(Review.) 



AVe have received a copy of the third Report of the 

 AVellcome Research Laboratories of the Gordon Memorial 

 College Khartoum a really magnificent piece of work re- 

 flecting the greatest credit on the Director Dr. Andrew 

 Balfour and his staff. The book contains 450 pages and is 

 beautifully illustrated with photographs and colored draw- 

 ings. The objects of the Laboratory are given briefly in a 

 separate slip with the book. They are to promote technical 



