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Mr. Stephens frequently contributed articles to the Bulletin , the 
last being on a new form of covering for a plant house, published in 
the September Bulletin. He was much interested in horticulture and 
especially in the cultivation of orchids, of which he obtained many 
interesting species on the Thaiping Hills, including the curious 
Cymbidium with which I had the pleasure of associating his name, 
some years ago. He was fifty-three at the time of his death, and had 
been about 35 years in the East. — H. N. R. 
CEYLON, STRAITS AND MALAY STATES 
Plantation Rubber Report. 
December 20th, 1907. 
The following Lots, comprising about 22 tons Straits and 5-* ton$ 
Ceylon, were offered at auctions to-day and sold as follows: — 
Straits and Malay States. 
MARK. PKGS. DESCRIPTION. 
B M & Co. 
P P 
B & D 
T 
Damansara 
Selangor 
F D 
I 
S K R Co. Ld 
B & D 
K 
PRICE 
PER LB. 
Cases 
I 
6 
10 
Darkish amber sheets, little rough 
3/i 1 
Fair virgin biscuits, little scrappy 
2/9 
Fair brown scrap 
m 
Darkish amber sheets 
3/ ni 
Brown scrap, barky 
2 / 8 * 
Low black dirty pressed scrap, barky 
and heated 
7d. 
Dark sheets, rather mouldy .. 
bought in 
Dark crepe 
3/4 
Pressed crepe 
3/4 * 
Black pressed crepe, pt. whitish 
Black and brown pressed crepe, showing 
bought in 
slight traces of heat 
Rough amber sheets and biscuits, some 
3/4* 
dark and traces of heat 
3/10 
Grey and white block 
3/- 
Grey and brownish block 
3/- 
Darkish amber sheets 
3/i° 
Palish amber thin sheets 
Fair mottled crepe, some dark specky 
3/io 
and part dull . . 
3/9 
Fair brown pressed crepe 
3/3 
Dark barky scrap crepe 
2 / 8 * 
Soft black and brown barky block 
Probably Rambong block, part black, 
2/2 
part weakish 
3 /- 
Weak whitish and brown block 
3/i 
White and black blocked scrap, part 
very dirty 
2 /l| 
Fair dark block, some barky pt. sold 
3 h 
Mottled crepe 
3/7 
Pale crepe 
3/io* 
