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This Exhibition will give the first opportunity in the Old World 
of enabling planter, dealer and manufacturer to bring the results of 
their labour before the public, and none of them can, in justice to their 
interests, neglect the chance of doing so. 
A display of this kind is quite certain to embrace an extraordinary 
variety of specialities. The evolution of the most numberless articles 
wholly or in part made of rubber from the raw material, will constitute 
a source of interest not hitherto enjoyed by the public. Rubber pro- 
ducers in various quarters of the globe are taking a keen interest in 
the Exhibition, and have intimated their intention to co-operate with 
the Committee in every possible way, and this interest is equalled by 
that of Consuls and others on this side, who, by joining the Committee 
and in other ways, are assisting the Executive to secure a thoroughly 
representative and interesting display of the various kinds of rubber, 
including Guayale, Pinguay weed, etc., etc., so that their character- 
istics may be studied and compared, to enable travellers to recognise 
the various plants when they come across them. 
No means will be neglected to secure the attendance of the class 
of visitors that will benefit the exhibitors, and the Committee will 
issue many thousands of invitations. In this connection a specially 
convenient and novel arrangement has been made by which exhibitors 
themselves may issue their own invitations to their customers and 
friends. Proofs of these invitations must, of course, be submitted to 
the Committee for approval, which having been obtained, exhibitors 
will be at liberty to send out as many as they choose, and they will 
afterwards pay at the rate of 20 s. for every hundred tickets collected 
at the doors. By this means an exhibitor may, if he desire, issue, 
say, a thousand invitations, each of which is an advertisement, and 
possibly have to pay for only 300 or 400 that have been actually used. 
The organizers are also making arrangements for the delivery of 
illustrated lectures and addresses on “ Rubber, its Uses, etc.,” and 
other cognate subjects. It is hoped that producers, as well as the 
trade generally, will attend such lectures and, by taking part in the 
discussions, contribute to the general knowledge of the various matters 
dealt with. Their utility is exemplified by the fact that Mr. Herbert 
Wright, at the Society of Arts in London, delivered such an one, and 
this, as well as the discussion that followed, has been published and is 
now a recognised text-book. There is every reason to believe that an 
equally favourable reception will be extended to the publication of any 
of the lectures delivered at the Exhibition ; and rubber brokers, by 
taking part in the discussions and otherwise collaborating with the 
Committee, can greatly help to advertise London as a distributing 
centre, thus attracting the chief growers and dealers, and so help to 
develop the trade and prevent its transference elsewhere. Another 
feature of these lectures will be the dissipation of mistaken im- 
pressions ; for instance, it has been stated that Rambong (ficus elastica ) 
and Castiiloa Rubbers are not appreciated in London ; but as both 
these rubbers form excellent foundations for certain goods, the 
