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EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
Viscount Mountmorres, Director, Institute of Commercial Research in the 
Tropics, Liverpool University. 
“ Please call upon me for any help that I may be able to render. I will do anything I can for 
you, to help to make the Exhibition a success.The idea of the Exhibition is an 
excellent one.” _ __ 
Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., Department of Agriculture, Barbados. 
“ I hope the idea of holding an International Rubber Exhibition in London has materialised, 
shall be happy to do whatever I can in support of it, and am quite willing to be a member of 
the Committee.” _ __ 
M. Kelway Bamber, Esq., F.C.S., Government Analytical Chemist, Ceylon. 
f ‘ I shall be very pleased to act as a member of the Advisory Committee, and do my best to 
further the interests of the Exhibition, which should be highly useful both to rubber producers and 
manufacturers .” 
Mr. R. L. Proudlock, Curator Botanic Gardens, Ootacamund, India. 
“Iam quite in sympathy with the idea of holding an International Rubber Exhibition in 
London, and shall be pleased to do what I can to interest in the matter those persons out here who 
are engaged in the rubber industry.” 
C. C. Mee, Esq., Chairman, Kalutara Planters’ Association. 
“In my opinion a Rubber Exhibition in London would prove of great benefit to the 
ndustry.” __ 
J, B. Carruthers, Esq., Director of Agriculture and Government Botanist, Federated 
Malay States. 
“With regard to the proposal to hold an International Rubber Exhibition in London, such 
a show would, if properly organised, be of great use to the rubber producer.” 
Dr. Eduard Marckwald and Dr. Fritz Frank, Berlin. 
“We have followed with great interest your endeavours to promote an International Rubber 
Exhibition in London in 1908. As the idea will include important interests, we are prepared to 
place our services at the disposal of the Organising Committee." 
T. Ritchie, Esq., of British East Africa Corporation. 
“Re proposed International Rubber Exhibition for London, I feel sure that it must be a great 
success.” _ _ 
Dr. Jaime Gutierrez, Consul for Colombia, writes. 
“Iam writing my Government calling their attention to the Exhibition, and I will take part 
by sending various specimens.” 
Senor A. Aldana, Consul for Venezuela, 
Is communicating with his Government, and they will do something in the way ol 
Exhibiting. _ _ 
Mr. Alfred Dominikus, Botanist, Schwelm, Westphalia. 
“ I have been greatly interested in reading in the ‘ Tropenflanzer’ that your idea of holding an 
India Rubber Exhibition in London has again been taken up. From all I have heard of the 
matter, the idea meets with my full approval. I should suggest that the Manufacturers be 
included so as to extend the scope and interest in the matter.” 
