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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 — E d. 
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, 1911, 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 be a 
guarantee that the exhibition of 1911 would by far exceed in import- 
ance and interest any previous exhibition of an industry. The writer 
of the prospectus for the 1911 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 
be the case. — Ed. 
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TIMBER NOTES. 
Carapa moluccana, 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 niris ( Carapa moluccana ) 
and so it appeared to be. The tree, so common in our mangrove 
swamps and easily recognised by its cannonball-like fruits, is in the 
south of the Peninsula a short gnarled and bent tree out of which it 
