Dr. Montgomery sent specimens to England and bringing it under the notice of competent persons, its value was at once acknowledged.…The sudden and great demand for it soon resulted in the disappearance of all the gutta-percha trees on Singapore Island.”—Collingwood, Rambles of a Naturalist, pp. 268–9.

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