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THIS book is intended to give the general reader a popular account of the rubber-growing industry. After a picturesque account of the discovery of the utility of rubber, he is taken successively through the regions of Brazil and Central America, and made to realise vividly the conditions under which rubber is produced in each country. The sources of the different American and African wild rubbers are described, and a graphic account of the collection of gutta-percha and balata is also given. The reader then learns how Mr. H. A. Wickham succeeded under great difficulties in transporting some Para, rubber seeds from Brazil to Kew, and how these have given rise to the vast rubber plantations in the Middle East. All the processes involved in the production of raw rubber are described in non-technical language, and will be readily understood by anyone.
Peeps at Industries: Rubber.
By Edith A. Browne. Pp. viii + 88 + plates. (London: A. and C. Black, 1912.) Price 1s. 6d. net.
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Peeps at Industries: Rubber . Nature 89, 554 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089554b0
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