But there are trees of exceptional size furnishing much niOrti 
latex. He heard from a Caliche ro that one oi his workmen came 
back from an excursion in the woods and said that he had found 
the mother of Caucho. a tree of such extraordinary dimension that 
no native dared to tap it. Finally when it was tapped it did not 
yield less than 231 lbs. of Rubber. (From the India Rubber World.) 
The size of these extraordinary trees is not mentioned, but they 
must.be truly gigantic. — Ed. 
RUBBER NEWS FROM MANAOS. 
Air. L, Garni ER writes from Manaos “ as to exhaustion Caucho 
is done lor as far as the Upper Amazon is concerned -and there is 
very little left in Bolivia or in Peru. There still exist however 
immense tracts of Caucho bearing land in Colombia, Ecuador and 
Venezuela and in Matto Grosso (Brazil'. 
Rubber (i.e., Para rubber) too, is gradually being exhausted and 
in my opinion unless serious steps are taken by the Government to 
protect the rubber trees in another twenty years it will be all over 
with the rubber industry in Amazonas. 
You may expect to hear of considerable tracts of rubber produc- 
ing country in Colombia being opened up. I refer to the Putumayo 
or lea river district which has a potential of 1,300 tons of rubber 
per annum not counting Caucho or Balata in the parts already ex- 
plored although in consequence of international squabbling it is not 
vet opened out. There are enormous tracts of Rubber on the Alto 
Maiaonu which however will not be oi any commercial importance 
lor many years on account of the Indians. ” 
u India Rubber World." 
NOTES FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 
The Bulletin of the Imperial Institute arc published as a supple- 
ment to the Board of Trade Journal at the price of one penny 
I hey contain accounts of the work of that institute and reports on 
the investigations on colonial products carried out in the laboratory, 
many of which are of the greatest interest to planters and merchants 
ot the East 
The work done lately in the Court devoted to the Straits Settle- 
ments and British North Borneo is described as follows: 
Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States —Considerable 
progress has been made in the re-organisation of this Court, on a 
plan 1 prepaied last year by Professor Dunstan, which was approved 
by the Government ol the Straits Settlements, by whom the work 
ui collecting and preparing in the Colony the new exhibits required 
was entrusted to Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., Director «d Botanic Gar- 
