CONTENTS 
CEYLON AND FEDERATED MALAY STATES 
FIRST LETTER. 
From New York to Ceylon 
Some Experiences of the Journey; Opinions of English Manu- 
facturers Regarding Ceylon Rubber; Points of Interest 
in the Tropics; Beautiful Ceylon; A Visit to Typical 
Hevea Plantations. 
SECOND LETTER. 
Results of Experiments at the Royal Botanical Gardens . . 
Growth of Hevea and its Yield at Various Ages; Canker 
Fungus and its Treatment; Plantation Scenes. 
THIRD LETTER. 
A Visit to the Neyv Experiment Station, Then to Cullodex 
Tapping Rubber Trees at Peradeniya Garden; Ficus Elastica 
Seventy-five Years Old; Prospective increase in Planting; 
Rainfall and Labor ; Some Incidents of Travel ; Library of 
Singhalese Sacred Literature; The Para Output from 
Ceylon ; The Weeding of Crops in the Island. 
FOURTH LETTER. 
Some Profitable Days Spent at Cullodex 
Hevea Trees at the Beautifully Laid Out Tea Estate; Night 
Tapping; Results of an Experiment in Scraping the Outer 
Bark from the Trees; An Oil made from Seeds of The 
Rubber Tree; A Rubber Drying House and Methods 
of Coagulation ; Some \ aluable Information 
Gleaned from \ isits to Other Rubber Plantations. 
FIFTH LETTER. 
From Ceylon to the Malay States 
Arrival at Singapore ; A Word About the Seat of Govern- 
ment; Visit to Royal Botanical Gardens; Hevea Re- 
sponds to Cultivation Here ; Phenomenal Growth ; Dis- 
tance Planting ; Castilloa and Ceara Less Promising 
A \ isit to Chinese Merchant Quarters Where Gutta 
Percha is Prepared for European Markets; Pro- 
cesses Watched with Interest; From Singapore 
to Selangor. 
