RANGE OF THE GUTTA TABAN COLLECTORS. 
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have many able botanists amongst them, they too, it would appear, 
have been obliged to await the slow indigenous process by which use¬ 
ful knowledge is diffused in the Indian Archipelago. 
The following statement of imports into Singapore from 1st Janu¬ 
ary to 12th July last will give some idea of the present extent of 
the trade, and the relative proportion of taban furnished by the differ¬ 
ent countries. They arc taken from the daily entries made at the 
office of the Registrar of Imports and Exports. About one halt of 
the taban imported is not entered, but we have added the probable 
actual quantities* 
I Malay Peninsula, 
Malacca 
225 
piculs 
M uar 
11. 
50 
Padang 
25 
33 
Bain Pahafc 
9 
70 
1 udau 
155 
33 
Simpang 
50 
33 
Pahang 
126 
?5 
593. 20 
The grerter part of the importations from Johore &c. are not en¬ 
tered at the Import and Export office. The imports for the Penin* 
sula have been probably about 2500. 
//. JohorC Arekipclago * 
Rhto 559 piculs 
Gallang 39^ , s 
Linga 670 2 ,, 
1269 , 5 
