Notes from the India-Rubber Journal, 
The International Rubber Planters Association . — The Editor of 
the Journal publishes a letter from Sir William Thiselton Dyer 
accepting the position of President of the Association, Sir WILLIAM 
lias always taken the greatest interest in the cultivation of Rubber 
and indeed it is to him that we in the East are indebted for the 
introduction of the Para rubber tree into the East. Dr. WEBER is 
the Honorary Expert of the Association. The Editor suggests to 
members of the Association, that they should prepare 51b. samples 
of rubber in any way that seems to them best or by any method to 
which they are best accustomed. Details of the process used should 
be given, and the samples will be examined by a prominent broker, 
then by a buyer, then bv Dr. WEBER. A portion of each will be 
analysed, after which they will be sent to an expert manufacturer 
w ho will give his opinion on their merits and who will then pro- 
ceed to manufacture each sample separately. A report of their 
behavior after vulcanisation will be given, a microscopic examina- 
tion will follow and a general report on the value of each sample 
will be given. This system should produce the most valuable re- 
sults, and one would certainly think that members of the Associa- 
tion would not delay to send samples in for so valuable an examina- 
tion and criticism. 
Mr. SIDNEY Parry writes a decriptive letter about Rubber 
planting in the Peninsula illustrated by good photographs of Par a 
trees in Raping, 3 A and (>l years old and trees on Kent Estate. 
Editor. 
Minutes of the first meeting of the General 
Gommittee, held at the Selangor Club at 11 am 
on Saturday, the 26th of March. 
The Acting Resident presided, there being 33 members present 
out of a total of 42. 
2. I he Chairman in a brief address informed the meeting of the 
objects of the show, remarking that this was the first of a series of 
shows which it had been decided to hold annually through the 
Colony and the Federated Malay States : that agriculture was a 
subject in which the Resident-General takes a great deal of interest 
and concluding by expressing the hope that those gentlemen who 
had been so good as to consent to serve on the various Committees, 
would do their best to make the show a success 
3. The agenda was then read by the Chairman of the Local 
Standing Committee (Mr. W. W. Bailey), and it was decided to 
deal with the fifth item on the agenda first, viz—: “To consider 
suggestions made by the Local Standing Committee. 1 ' 
4. The following suggestions were agreed to ? nem. con. : — 
(i) That the show be held on the race course, — subject to 
the approval of the Turf Ciub: 
