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in a few months, and recovery is very rare. But these symptoms do 

 not seem to be identical with those of the Borneo disease. It appears 

 chiefly to attack the palmyra palm in india but also areca and 

 coconut. — Ed. 



THE RUBBER EXHIBITION OF 1911. 



An International Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition is to be 

 held in the Royal Agricultural Hall, London, from the 19th to the 

 28th June, 191 1, under the presidency of Sir Henry Blake. 



The immense success of the last exhibition and the vast develop- 

 ment of the industry since 1908, when it was held, should he a 

 guarantee that the exhibition of 191 1 would by far exceed in import- 

 ance and interest any previous exhibition of an industry. The writer 

 of the prospectus for the 191 1 exhibition notes that two days after 

 the opening of the Exhibition of 1908 the price of rubber commenced 

 to rise, it was then 3s. 3d. per lb. and it has been on the upward 

 tendency ever since. 



As before Mr. A, Staines Manders is manager of the exhibition 

 and a large sized block of the exhibition-buildings has been set aside 

 for the exhibits of the Malay Peninsula which we hope may be well 

 filled. 



All kinds of wild and plantation rubbers will be shown as well 

 as Balata, Gutta Percha, Jelutong, methods of tapping, instruments 

 used, machinery, fertilizers, and everything connected with the 

 plantation industry; in the manufacturers' section, all goods 

 manufactured wholly or partly from any form of Rubber or Gutta 

 Percha fabrics, chemicals, machinery, rubber substitutes, vulcanite 

 and ebonite and in fact anything connected with the manufactory. 

 Rubber literature also finds a place in the exhibition. As before 

 lectures will be given and a conference held. 



The important position that the Malay Peninsula holds now in 

 the eyes of the whole world as the leading country in the industry of 

 rubber planting makes it imperative that the exhibition from the 

 Colony and the Malay States should be the finest, most complete and 

 illustrative in the whole exhibition, and we may hope that this may 

 he the case. — Ed. 



TIMBER NOTES. 



Carapa nioluccana, Nireh or Niris. In a visit to Setul recently, 

 I found a Malay working at large —sized beams of a red hard wood 

 and ask<^d him what it was. He told me it was mris {Cara^a moluccana) 

 and so it appeared to be. The tree, so common in our mangrove 

 swamps and easily recognised by itsT cannonball-like fruits, is in the 

 south of the Peninsula u short gnarled and bent tree out of which it 



