495 
Only to-day a merchant was enquiring where a few tons of the 
■oil were to be had for shipment to America, and it is certain that 
the oil would fetch a ready sale were it procurable in large quanti- 
ties especially at the present time: — Ed. 
Para Rubber-Seed Oil, 
{Extracts from Chemist and Druggist.) 
Attention is again called to this article of future commerce in 
several papers owing to the shortage of linseed oil this year. The 
amount of rubber seed in the Peninsula now practically wasted is very 
large and some addition to the profit of the industry might certainly 
be made from the seeds. On clean weeded estates, in the season it 
should be possible to gather or sweep up the seed at a comparatively 
small cost and supply it to the oil-mills, where it could be crushed 
and the oil extracted, the residue being made into oil-cake. 
The great scarcity of linseed oil is causing much anxiety among 
consumers. The paint trade has been making a large use of sub- 
stitutes but for wagon sheet making, oilcloths, etc., nothing can take 
the place of linseed. The present quotation for linseed is higher than 
it has been for twenty years, and 100 per cent higher than this time 
last year. The failure of the linseed crop and the occupation of many 
of the mills in soy bean crushing seems to be the causes of this rise 
in price (extract from chemist and Druggist, October I, 1910). Now it 
seems would be the time to put Para seed oil on the market as a 
substitute for linseed. The following quotations fromffhe same journal 
for will be of interest. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. Melchior Treub. 
By the death of Dr. Treub the world loses its greatest tropical 
agriculturist and administrator of cultural establishments, and we 
could not pass over the death of one who has done so much for 
agriculture in the East without expressing our sense of the sad loss 
of so great a man. Dr. Treub was born at Voorschoten, near Leyden, 
on December, the 26th 1851, and after completing his undergraduate 
career was appointed assistant in the Botanical Institute of the 
University of Leyden, in 1874, and in 1880 was appointed to the 
Directorship of the. Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg, (being then only 
29 years of age), succeeding Dr. Scheffer. 
Through his energy and perseverance he raised the position of 
the Buitenzorg Gardens to the highest rank of any gardens in the 
world. Aided by a sympathetic government and his own great powers 
of administration he developed the economic functions of the esta- 
blishment to the utmost, increasing the area under cultivation, and the 
staff, and adding the finest Botanical Laboratories in the world. He 
persuaded his Government to provide special laboratory accom- 
modation for foreign workers, a very large number of whom came to 
