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THE scientific groups dealing with rubber production in Ceylon, Malaya and Netherlands East Indies have recently adopted a common notation for expressing the varied tapping systems by which the crop from Hevea is obtained. Attention was directed by Evan Guest, of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, to the confusion and ambiguity which existed because different centres had developed their own nomenclature without plan, and his suggested scheme, modified by the co-operation of others, has now been accepted (J. Rubber Research Inst. Malaya, 9, 142–170; 1939: 10, 16–33; 1940). This will mark a great advance in co-ordination of scientific records of yields from Hevea, for the fundamental factor, namely, intensity of tapping, is simply and accurately brought into the required prominence.
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Notation for Tapping Systems of the Rubber Tree. Nature 146, 193–194 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146193c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146193c0