“…Numerous studies have been presented on various aspects of stretching flows since the seminal work by Crane (1970). One may refer to recent investigations by , Fang et al (2010), Khan and Pop (2010), Ahmad and Asghar (2011), Kandasamy et al (2011), Rashidi et al (2011), , Yao et al (2011) and Makinde and Aziz (2011) in this direction. On the other hand, mass transfer is important due to its appearance in many scientific disciplines that involve convective transfer of atoms and molecules.…”