The Art of Paper-Making / A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Paper from Rags, Esparto, Straw, and Other Fibrous Materials, Including the Manufacture of Pulp from Wood Fibre

by Alexander Watt

[1] Cantor Lectures, Journal of Society of Arts, vol. xxvi. p. 74.

[2] Needle-shaped, slender and sharp-pointed.

[3] Manilla hemp.

[4] For this purpose, a microscope having a magnifying power of 120 to 150 diameters will be found efficient.

[5] "Commercial Organic Analysis." By A. H. Allen, F.C.S., vol. i. p. 316.

[6] For Table of French Measures see [end of this work].

[7] Pectous, pertaining to or consisting of pectose or pectin. Pectose is a substance contained in the pulp of unripe fleshy fruit, also in fleshy roots and other vegetable organs. It is insoluble in water, but under the influence of acids is transformed into pectin.

[8] A litre equals 34 fluid ounces nearly.

[9] "Commercial Organic Analysis." By A. H. Allen, F.C.S., vol. i.

[10] Septa, plural of septum, a partition, as the partitions of an orange, for example.