Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé, Robin Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | * Minor typographical and lay-out errors have been corrected. | | * Inconsistencies in spelling (e.g. hyphenated vs. non-hyphenated | | words) have not been corrected. | | * Italics are represented by underscores as in _text_. | | * The original book uses a V symbol to describe V-shaped cuts. These | | V symbols are represented as [V]. | | * Changes made to original text: | | * Table of Contents: | | * "Early collection of latex transport" changed to "Early | | collection of latex--Transport". | | * "Roof brick built houses" changed to "Roof--Brick built | | houses". | | * The order of the sections under Chapters XII and XXII has been | | changed slightly to reflect the order of the sections in the | | text. | | * "Tephrosia candiad" changed to "Tephrosia candida". | | * "Archiev" changed to "Archief". | | * "about 1/2 square" changed to "about 1/2 inch square". | | * "asbesto-slate" changed to "asbestos-slate" as elsewhere. | | * "Formaline" changed to "Formalin" as elsewhere. | | * Footnotes moved to under the paragraph they belong to. | | * Page 141: "The lengths of crepe were weighed carefully at 8 a.m. | | and 4 a.m." should probably read "The lengths of crepe were weighed| | carefully at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m." | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ THE PREPARATION OF PLANTATION RUBBER THE PREPARATION OF PLANTATION RUBBER BY SIDNEY MORGAN, A.R.C.S. VISITING AGENT FOR ESTATES IN THE EAST; FORMERLY SENIOR SCIENTIFIC OFFICER AND NOW HONORARY ADVISER TO THE RUBBER GROWERS' ASSOCIATION IN MALAYA WITH A PREFACE AND A CHAPTER ON VULCANIZATION BY HENRY P. STEVENS, M.A. (OXON.,) PH.D., F.I.C. CONSULTING CHEMIST TO THE RUBBER GROWERS' ASSOCIATION IN LONDON