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IN this work the author gives a description of the various stages through which india-rubber passes from the time when it oozes, out of the tree until it leaves the factory, a finished article, fashioned and fit for the service of man. The book is expressly designed for the general reader. It does not, except incidentally, deal with the chemistry of india-rubber, nor with the minute details of manufacture; the volume is neither a laboratory guide nor a factory handbook. There are, however, many people interested in india-rubber who are neither chemists nor manufacturers, and the author thinks that a volume conceived on broad general lines to expound the natural and commercial history of rubber cannot be deemed a superfluity. Similarly it may, perhaps, not be amiss to give here a short outline of the matter for the benefit of those readers of NATURE who, likewise, are neither chemists nor manufacturers.
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SIMMONDS, C. The Production and Manipulation of India-Rubber . Nature 77, 296 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077296a0
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