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This Exhibition will give the first opportunity in the Old World 

 of enabling planter, dealer and manufacturer to bring the results of 

 their labour before the public, and none of them can, in justice to their 

 interests, neglect the chance of doing so. 



A display of this kind is quite certain to embrace an extraordinary 

 variety of specialities. The evolution of the most numberless articles 

 wholly or in part made of rubber from the raw material, will constitute 

 a source of interest not hitherto enjoyed by the public. Rubber pro- 

 ducers in various quarters of the globe are taking a keen interest in 

 the Exhibition, and have intimated their intention to co-operate with 

 the Committee in every possible way, and this interest is equalled by 

 that of Consuls and others on this side, who, by joining the Committee 

 and in other ways, are assisting the Executive to secure a thoroughly 

 representative and interesting display of the various kinds of rubber, 

 including Guayale, Pinguay weed, etc., etc., so that their character- 

 istics may be studied and compared, to enable travellers to recognise 

 the various plants when they come across them. 



No means will be neglected to secure the attendance of the class 

 of visitors that will benefit the exhibitors, and the Committee will 

 issue many thousands of invitations. In this connection a specially 

 convenient and novel arrangement has been made by which exhibitors 

 themselves may issue their own invitations to their customers and 

 friends. Proofs of these invitations must, of course, be submitted to 

 the Committee for approval, which having been obtained, exhibitors 

 will be at liberty to send out as many as they choose, and they will 

 afterwards pay at the rate of 20s. for every hundred tickets collected 

 at the doors. By this means an exhibitor may, if he desire, issue, 

 say, a thousand invitations, each of which is an advertisement, and 

 possibly have to pay for only 300 or 400 that have been actually used. 



The organizers are also making arrangements for the delivery of 

 illustrated lectures and addresses on " Rubber, its Uses, etc.," and 

 other cognate subjects. It is hoped that producers, as well as the 

 trade generally, will attend such lectures and, by taking part in the 

 discussions, contribute to the general knowledge of the various matters 

 dealt with. Their utility is exemplified by the fact that Mr. Herbert 

 Wright, at the Society of Arts in London, delivered such an one, and 

 this, as well as the discussion that followed, has been published and is 

 now a recognised text-book. There is every reason to believe that an 

 equally favourable reception will be extended to the publication of any 

 of the lectures delivered at the Exhibition ; and rubber brokers, by 

 taking part in the discussions and otherwise collaborating with the 

 Committee, can greatly help to advertise London as a distributing 

 centre, thus attracting the chief growers and dealers, and so help to 

 develop the trade and prevent its transference elsewhere. Another 

 feature of these lectures will be the dissipation of mistaken im- 

 pressions ; for instance, it has been stated that Rambong (ficus elastica) 

 and Castilloa Rubbers are not appreciated in London ; but as both 

 these rubbers form excellent foundations for certain goods, the 



