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14. Mr. Ridley promised to write a pamphlet dealing with the 
history of rubber in Malaya. It was also suggested that Mr. Brown’s 
bulletin on Coconut Cultivation might be made use of. The Com- 
mittee felt that a small charge of perhaps id. should be made for 
these, in order to prevent their being treated as waste paper, as so 
many circulars are at exhibitions if given gratis. 
15. It was agreed to ask Mr. Burn-Murdoch to get together a 
forest section, specimens of wild rubber, gutta, would be included as 
also specimens of the native woods used for construction work on 
rubber plantations. 
16. The Committee considered the machinery was outside the 
scope of their exhibit and that local firms wishing to exhibit 
machinery should do independently. 
THE RUBBER EXHIBITION OF LONDON, 1911. 
The International Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition will be 
held in the Agricultural Hall, London, from the I2th to the 20th of 
June, under the management of Mr. A. Staines Manders. The im- 
mense success of the last Exhibition and the still increasing interest 
taken in the industry, augur well for the exhibition to be held this 
year. It is of the greatest importance that the Malay Peninsula, the 
head quarters of the industry, should be even better represented than 
that all interested and able to show samples of merit will assist in 
making the Exhibition worthy of the country. 
Rubbers of all kinds, wild and cultivated, in all forms, Balata, 
Gutta percha, Jelutong and all such gums, Botanical specimens, 
methods of tapping, tools, machinery, fertilizers, motor boats, etc., as 
used on estates. Manufactured rubber of all kinds and articles used 
in the manufacture, photographs, pictures, diagrams, maps and 
literature bearing on the subject are all in request for the instruction 
of the home public. Other products connected with the industry, 
rubber seed, oil and oil-cake, coconuts, copra, etc., will all be shown. 
It is proposed to have the exhibits of plantation rubber sent to 
Kuala Lumpur to the care of the Director of Agriculture by April 2, 
so that the finest and most interesting exhibits can be selected by the 
committee, and we hope that the whole series of exhibits will beat 
anything ever shown before, let alone anything else in the Hall. 
GUM BENJAMIN. 
Gum Benjamin or Benzoin is the aromatic resin of the tree 
{Styrax bemoin) of the order Styraceae, a common tree of the Malay 
Peninsula, and Sumatra. The Malay name of the product is Kemim- 
yan. 
