ing presses, vacuum drying presses; tools and estate req- 
uisites; a model of the Kearney High Speed Railway; and 
general estate machinery. 
Scientific section. 
The Scientific section included laboratory apparatus 
and appliances for testing and analysing rubber and rubber 
goods, and scientific instruments. 
Literature was adequately represented by the technical 
-journals of England, America, France, Holland, and Ger- 
many, and books dealing with every branch of the industry 
were abundant. 
Conferences. 
During the exhibition conferences were held by the 
delegates from nearly all European countries, and America, 
and a very full and complete programme of the industry m 
all its phases was got through, but as the proceedings wi 
shortly be published I will only refer to one r^t-hy 
general consent— here, viz:— the impossibility of synthetic 
rubber under existing conditions. 
Scientific Section. 
From the Royal gardens at Kew an interesting group 
of rare and new rubber specimens, and samples, was 
shown, as well as two Wardian cases ot Para seedlings, 
packed in the same way as in 1876, when the first plants of 
Hevea braziliensis were sent to the East. 
Conclusion. 
It is proposed to hold another exhibition in London two 
years hence, or in 1910, which speaks well for the success of 
the first International Exhibition, that success was largely, 
if not entirely due, to the development of cultivated rubber, 
and this— it was acknowledged by the American and Con 
tinental delegates— owes its position to British enterpuse. 
18th January, 1909. 
B. Derry, 
Co-Commissioner for Malaya. 
MALAYA PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Minutes of Meeting of the Planters’ Association of 
Malaya, held at the Mess-House, Seremban, at 10 a.m., on 
December 6th, 1908. 
