Literature.

The chief works relating to the tanning, currying, and dressing of leather, and the tanning materials employed, are as follows:—

Abridgments of Specifications: Skin, Hides, and Leather, 1627-1866.London: 1872.
Bernardin (R. J.).
Classification de 350 Matières Tannantes.Gand: 1880.
Brüggemann (A.).
Weissgerberei.Quedlinburg.
Brüggemann (A.).
Saffian Fabrikation.Quedlinburg.
Brüggemann (A.).
Glacéleder Färberei.Quedlinburg.
Councler (Dr. C.).
Bericht über die Verhandlungen der Commission zur Feststellung einer einheitlichen Methode der Gerbstoffbestimmung.Cassel: 1885.
Das Ganze der Lederbereitung.Quedlinburg.
Davis (C. T.).
Manufacture of Leather.Philadelphia: 1885.
Dussauce (F.).
Tanning, Currying, and Leather-dressing.Philadelphia: 1865.
Eitner (W.).
Leder-Industrie: Bericht über die Welt-Ausstellung in Philadelphia, 1876.Vienna: 1877.
Hansen (A.).
Die Quebracho Rinde.Berlin: 1880.
Höhnel (F. R. von).
Die Gerberinden.Berlin: 1880.
Knapp (Fr.).
Natur und Wesen der Gerberei und des Leders.München: 1858.
Lange (J. C.).
Lederbereitung.Quedlinburg.
Lietzmann (J. C. H.).
Herstellung des Leder in ihren Chemischen und Physikalischen Vorgängen.Berlin: 1875.
McMurtrie (W.).
Culture of Sumac, and preparation for market: Department of Agriculture Special Report, No. 26.Washington: 1880.
Morfit (C.).
The Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather-dressing.Philadelphia: 1852.
Neubrand (J. G.).
Die Gerbrinde.Frankfurt-on-Maine: 1869.
Olivet (P.).
Lederfärberei.Quedlinburg.
Schultz (J. S.)
Leather Manufacture: a Dissertation on the Methods and Economics of Tanning.New York: 1876.
Sonnenfeldt (Dr.).
Färben der Pelzwaaren.Quedlinburg.
Villain (H.).
Cuirs et Peaux: Tannage, Corroyage, et Mégisserie.Paris: 1867.
Vincent (C.).
Fabrication et Commerce des Cuirs et Peaux.Paris: 1872.
Wattle Bark: Report of the Board of Inquiry.Melbourne: 1878.
Wiener (F.).
Die Lohgerberei, oder die Fabrikation des Lohgaren Leders.Leipzig: 1879.
Wiesner (J.).
Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches.Leipzig: 1873.
Wittmack (L.).
Die Nutzpflanzen aller Zonen.Berlin: 1879.
Leather Trades Circular and Review.London.
Tanners' and Curriers' Journal.London.
Scottish Leather Trader.Glasgow.
Shoe and Leather Reporter.New York.
La Halle aux Cuirs.Paris.
Der Gerber.Vienna.
Gerber Zeitung.Berlin.
Deutsche Gerber Zeitung.Berlin.
Gerber Courier.Vienna.
Gazetta dei Pellami.Milan.

[INDEX.]

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Abies bark, [53]
── tannin, [31]
Acacia barks, [34-8]
── fruits, [53]
── tannin, [23-5]
Acetic acid, examining, [102]
Achromatic condenser, [9]
Acid, digallic, [76-8]
──, dioxysalicylic, [69-71]
──, ellagic, [71]
──, ellagitannic, [78]
──, gallic, [69-71]
──, gallotannic, [76-8]
──, quercitannic, [78]
── solutions, preparing standard, [95-7]
Acids, decomposition of tannins by, [68-73]
──, examination of, [101]
──, free, in tan-liquor, determining, [108-11]
Acorn cups, [50-3]
── galls, [27]
Adipose tissue, [8]
Adjustment for thickness of cover-glasses, [11]
African kino, [34]
Air, capacity for moisture, [249]
Albumen, [20]
Alder bark, [54]
Aleppische Gallen, [26-8]
Aleppo galls, [26-8]
Algarobilla, [23]
Algarrobo, [23]
Alkaline solutions, preparing standard, [95-7]
Allen and Warren sprinkler leck, [241]
Alligator skins, [255]
Alnus tannin, [54]
Alum in tanning, [218-22]
Amboyna kino, [33]
American press leck, [241]
── rocker, [169]
── union splitter, [188]
Ampelopsis hæderacea, [67]
Analysing tannins, [118-31]
──, methods for the tannery, [90-131]
Analysis, indicators, [91]
──, instruments, [91-5]
──, standard solutions, [90]
Anatomical structure of hide, [2-16]
Aphis punctures, [28]
Areca-nut cutch, [25]
Armadillo skins, [255]
Artificial light for microscope, [12]
Ash of leather, estimating, [107]
Aspidosperma wood, [39]
Ass skins, [255]
Australian kino, [34]
Babul tannin, [53]
Bahera, [38]
Balance, [93]
Balsamocarpon pods, [23]
Bark, commerce, [270]
── elevators, [162]
── mills, [158-61]
Barkometer, [169]
Bates for dressing leather, [184-6]
Beaming dressing leather, [187]
── hides, [151]
Bengal kino, [33]
Bibliography, [272-4]
Blood vessels, [8]
Bloom, source of, [62]
Bloomers for butts, [176]
Blue-back seal-skins, [206]
Boots and shoes, commerce, [265]
Botany Bay kino, [34]
Breaking the nerve, [8]
Bristol finishing, [183]
Buffalo method of unhairing, [144]
── skins, [255]
Bulls'-eye condenser, [12]
Burettes, [92]
Burning-in strap butts, [201]
Butea kino, [33]
Butts, cleansing lime from, [155]
── defined, [155]
──, striking, [179]
Cachou, [23-5]
── jaune, [29-31]
Cæsalpinia pods, [25], [54]
Calf kid, [223]
── skins, [256]
Camata valonia, [52]
Camatina valonia, [52]
Cascalote tannin, [54]
Castanea extract, [23]
Catechin, [79-81]
Catechol, [67]
Catechu, [23-5]
Catechutannic acid, [81]
Cellular structure of hide, examining, [12]
Chagrin, [258]
Chamada valonia, [52]
Chamois leather, [210-2]
Charcala valonia, [52]
Chemical composition of hide, [17-22]
Chemistry of tannins, [57-82]
Chestnut extract, [23]
── ── for sole leather, [158]
Chinese galls, [28]
Chlorine in water, estimating, [98]
Chromic and osmic acids for hardening and staining hide sections, [14]
Churco bark, [55]
Cleaning drains in tannery, [240]
Climax scourer, [200]
Commerce, [255-71]
Commercial tanning materials, [23-56]
Composition, chemical, of hide, [17-22]
Comptonia tannin, [54]
Condense-water trap, [251]
Connective tissue, [7]
── ──, nature of, [18]
Constitution of tannins, [76-82]
Construction of tanneries, [231-42]
Conveyors for bark, [162]
Coriaria tannin, [54]
Coriin, [19]
── in lime-liquors, determining, [104]
Corium, [2], [7]
Cork-tree bark, [38]
Cover-glasses, [11]
──, screwing objective down on, [11]
Cow skins, [261]
Crown leather, [213-7]
Crust roans, [206]
Curried leather, measuring, [202]
Currying, [193-202]
── crown leather, [217]
── defined, [1]
Cutch, [23-5]
──, commerce, [271]
Cutting hide-sections, [12-5]
Cynips punctures, [26]
Decomposition of phlobaphenes by fusion with caustic alkali, [73-5]
── ── tannins by acids, [68-73]
── ── ── by heat, [65]
── ── ──, products of, [65-8]
Deer skins, [256]
Dégras, [211]
Depilatories, various, [150]
Derma, [2]
Dhak kino, [33]
Diffuseur for exhausting tan, [167]
Digallic acid, [76-8]
Dioxysalicylic acid, [69-71]
Diplolepis punctures, [26]
Disintegrators, [158-61]
Dissolving extracts, [168]
Dividing hides, [155]
Divi-divi, [25]
── ── for sole leather, [157]
Dog skins, [256]
Drainage of tanyard, [231]
Drains from latches and pits, [240]
Dressed leather, commerce, [265]
── skins, commerce, [263]
Dressing leather, [184-92]
Dry raw hides, commerce, [264]
Drying, principles, [248-54]
── -sheds, [243-54]
── sole leather, [183]
Dugong skins, [256]
Dyeing calf kid, [224]
── chamois leather, [212]
── glove kid, [229]
East Indian kino, [33]
── ── kips, [191]
Écorces de Chêne, [38]
Eichenrinden, [38]
Einbrennen, [201]
Elæocarpus tannin, [54]
Elastic fibres, [8]
── ──, nature of, [21]
Elevators for bark, [162]
Ellagic acid, [63], [71]
Ellagitannic acid, [78]
Enamelled leather, [203-5]
── ──, commerce, [265]
Ephreda tannin, [54]
Epidermis of hide, [2]
Epithelial layer of hide, [2]
Erectores pili muscles, [2], [7]
Espinillo tannin, [54]
Estimating ash of leather, [107]
── chlorine in water, [98]
── grease in leather, [105]
── hardness of water, [97]
── sulphur in sodium sulphide, [104]
Eucalyptus kino, [34]
── tannin, [54]
Eugenia tannin, [54]
Examination of acids, [101]
── of lime and lime-liquors, [102-4]
── of water, [97-100]
Examining cellular structure of hide, [12]
Exhausting tanning materials, [161-8]
── tannins, [117]
Extracts, commerce, [271]
──, dissolving, [168]
──, preparing, [32]
Fat glands, [6]
Fish skins, [256-8]
Fitzhenry scouring machine, [196]
Flasks, [91]
Fleshing hides, [152-5]
Focus of microscope, [10]
French morocco, [206]
Frizing by hard water, [85]
Fuchsia tannin, [54]
Furnaces for burning tan, [164]
Galläpfel, [26-8]
Galle d'Alep, [26-8]
Gallic acid, [69-71]
Gallotannic acid, [76-8]
Galls, [25-9]
──, commerce, [271]
Galuchat, [258]
Gambia kino, [34]
Gambier, [29-31]
──, commerce, [271]
Gambir, [29-31]
Gammuzza sumach, [46]
Gelatin in lime liquors, determining, [104]
──, nature of, [17]
Gerbersumach, [40-50]
Glands of skin, [2], [6]
Glove kid, [225-30]
Gloves, commerce, [266]
Goat skins, [258-60]
Grain of tanned leather, [6], [8]
Graining dressing leather, [189]
Grease in leather, estimating, [105]
Grinding tanning materials, [158-61]
Hair cuticle, [4]
──, growth, [2]
Handler liquors, table of determinations, [111]
Handlers, [169], [173]
Handling hides, [169]
Har, [38]
Hardening hide for cutting, [14]
Hardness of water, [84-6]
── ── ──, estimating, [97]
Harra, [38]
Hartnack's objectives and eye-pieces, [10]
Head required to pass air in pipes, [253]
Heat, decomposition of tannins by, [65-8]
Heating effect of pipes, [250]
── leaches, [242]
── liquors, [242]
Hemlock, [31]
── extract for sole leather, [158]
Henle's layer, [5]
Hide albumen, [20]
──, anatomical structure, [2-16]
──, chemical composition, [17-22]
──, examining cellular structure, [12]
──, hardening, for cutting, [14]
──, holding, for cutting, [13]
──, influence of water in plumping, [85]
──, microscopic examination, [9-16]
──, section, [2]
──, sections, cutting, [12-15]
── ──, mounting, [14]
── ──, rendering transparent, [13]
── ──, simultaneous hardening and staining, [14]
── ──, staining, [14]
── substance in leather, determining, [108]
Hides, beaming, [151]
──, dividing, [155]
──, fleshing, [152-5]
── for sole leather, preparing, [132-8]
──, handling, [169]
──, imports, [266-70]
──, liming, [139-45]
──, preparing for tanning, [133-8]
──, rounding, [155]
──, soaking, [133-6]
──, softening, [138]
──, stocking, [136]
──, sweating, [145-7]
──, unhairing, [139-56]
──, ── by sulphides, [147-50]
High-power objectives, [11]
Hiusache tannin, [53]
Holding hide for cutting, [13]
Holmes' tool carriage, [196]
Horny layer of hide, [2]
── tissues, nature of, [21]
Horse skins, [260]
Hot air pipes, [252]
── water pipes, [252]
Howard scrubber, [176]
Huxley's layer, [5]
Hyaline, [6]
Hydrochloric acid, examining, [101]
Hydrometer, [169]
Hygrometer table, [249]
Hymenæa pods, [23]
Illuminating apparatus, [10]
── microscope, [12]
Immersion lenses, [9]
Indicators for analysis, [91]
Infusions for Löwenthal's analytical method, [130]
Inga tannin, [55]
Instruments for analysis, [91-5]
Iodina wood, [40]
Iron in tanyards, [241]
Jackson scouring machine, [196]
Japanese galls, [28]
Japanned leather, [203-5]
── ──, commerce, [265]
Jiggers, [207]
Juchtenleder, [208]
Kamai bark, [56]
Kangaroo skins, [260]
Kát, [23-5]
Keratin, [21]
Kid skins, [258-60]
Kifushi galls, [28]
Kino, [32-4]
Kinoin, [81]
Kiri-hinau tannin, [54]
Kiri-toa-toa bark, [55]
Knoppern galls, [27]
Kut, [23-5]
Lamb skins, [260]
Lancashire finish, [183]
Latches, construction, [241]
── for exhausting tan, [164-8]
Laurus tannin, [55]
Layers for butts, [176]
Leaches, heating, [242]
Leather, chemical examination of, [105-8]
──, determining hide substance, [108]
──, estimating ash of, [107]
──, estimating grease in, [105]
──, estimating matters soluble in water, [106]
── manufacture defined, [1]
Lecks for exhausting tan, [164-8]
Levantische Gallen, [26-8]
Levelling glove kid, [226]
Libi-dibi, [25]
Lime, examination of, [102]
── for unhairing, [139-45]
── -liquors, determining gelatin and coriin in, [104]
── ──, examination of, [102]
Liquors, heating, [242]
Literature, [272-4]
Llama skins, [261]
Lockwood automatic scourer, [197]
London finish, [183]
Löwenthal's modified process for analysing tannins, [127-31]
Loxopterygium wood, [39]
Lymph vessels, [8]
Machærium wood, [40]
Maintenance of tanneries, [231-42]
Malphigia tannin, [55]
Manatee skins, [256]
Mangrove bark, [55]
Manquitta bark, [55]
Measuring curried leather, [202]
Methods of analysis for the tannery, [90-131]
Microscope, artificial light for, [12]
──, choice of, [9]
──, illuminating, [12]
──, price of, [10]
Microscopic examination of hide, [9-16]
Mills for grinding bark, [158-61]
── ── ── sumach leaves, [49]
Mimosa bark, [34-8]
── ── for sole leather, [158]
── tannin, [23-5]
Mineral tanning, [218-22]
Miscellaneous tannins, [53-6]
Mise au vent, [194]
Moëllon, [211]
Molinier's hide-working machine, [187]
Morocco leather, [206]
Mounting hide-sections, [14]
Myrobalans, [38]
──, commerce, [271]
── for sole leather, [157]
Naucite tannin, [55]
Nauclea extract, [29-31]
Nerve, breaking the, [8]
Nitrogen bulb, [103]
Noix de galle, [26-8]
Nut-galls, [26-8]
Oak-bark for sole leather, [157]
── ── tannin, [78]
── -barks, [38]
── -galls, [26-8]
── -wood extract for sole leather, [158]
Objective, screwing down on cover, [11]
Objectives, [8]
Oiling in currying, [195]
Osmic acid solution, preserving, [15]
── and chromic acids for hardening and staining hide-sections, [14]
Ox skins, [261]
Oxalic acid, examining, [102]
Oxalis tannin, [55]
Oxyphenic acid, [67]
Palas kino, [33]
Pale catechu, [29-31]
Panniculus adiposus, [15]
Pars papillaris, [2]
── reticularis, [2]
Patent leather, [203-5]
Pay-pay pods, [55]
Permanganate process for analysing tannins, [128-31]
Persea bark, [55]
Phlobaphenes, [72]
──, decomposition by fusion with caustic alkali, [73-5]
Phloroglucin, [74]
Phloroglucol, [74]
Phyllocladus bark, [55]
Pipes, heating effect of, [250]
Pipettes, [92]
Pits, construction, [238-40]
Plan of tannery, [232-6]
Plumping hide, influence of water on, [85]
Pokako tannin, [54]
Polygonum leaves, [55]
Pomegranate tannin, [55]
Preller's leather, [213-7]
Preparation of tannins, [58]
Preparing hides for sole leather, [132-8]
Preparing hides for tanning, [133-8]
── standard solutions, [95-7]
Preserving osmic acid solution, [15]
Price of microscope, [10]
Priestman's striking machine, [180]
Prosopis pods, [23]
Protocatechuic acid, [75]
Pterocarpus kinos, [33], [34]
Pumps for tannery, [241]
Punica tannin, [55]
Pures for dressing leather, [184-6]
Purification of tannins, [58]
Putz's patent filling, [22]
Pyrocatechin, [67]
Pyrocatechol, [67]
Pyrogallic acid, [66]
Pyrogallol, [66]
Quebrachia wood, [40]
Quebrachitannic acid, [82]
Quebracho, [39]
── catechin, [81]
Quercitannic acid, [78]
Quercus acorn cups, [50-3]
── barks, [38]
Reagents for analysing tannins, [120-3]
Rete malpighi, [2]
Retenage, [194]
Rhabdisto valonia, [52]
Rhizophora bark, [55]
Rhus galls, [28]
── leaves, [40-50]
Roble Colorado bark, [56]
Rocker, [169]
Rounding hides, [155]
Rove galls, [28]
Russia leather, [208]
Salt in water, effect of, [86]
Salts for tanning, [218-22]
Sampling tannins, [116]
Sangue del drago, [34]
Schmack, [40-50]
Screwing objective down on cover, [11]
Seal skins, [261]
Sebaceous glands, [6]
Section of hide, [2]
Sections of hide, cutting, [12-15]
Shafting in tannery, [236]
Shagreen, [258]
Shaving dressing leather, [187]
Sheep skins, [262]
Shumac, [40-50]
Site for tannery, [231]
Skins, trade in, [255-70]
Soaking hides, [133-6]
Sod oil, [211]
Sodium sulphide, estimating sulphur in, [104]
Softening hides, [138]
Sole-leather, [132-83]
── ──, preparing hides, [132-8]
── ──, tanning materials, [157-68]
── ──, treatment in the shed, [179-83]
── ──, treatment in the tan-house, [169-78]
── ──, unhairing hides, [139-56]
Soluble matters in leather, estimating, [106]
Splitting dressing leather, [188]
Staining hide-sections, [14]
Standard solutions, [90]
── ──, preparing, [95-7]
── ──, table of, [97]
Statistics, [255-71]
Steam pipes, [250]
── power in tannery, [236]
── trap, [251]
Stieleiche bark, [38]
Stocking hides, [136]
Stretching dressing leather, [191]
Striking butts, [179]
Structure, anatomical, of hide, [2-16]
Stuffing strap-butts, [200]
Sudoriferous glands, [6]
Sulphides for unhairing, [147-50]
Sulphur, estimating, in sodium sulphide, [104]
Sulphuric acid, examining, [101]
Sumach, [40-50]
──, commerce, [271]
── extract, [50]
── mill, [49]
── plantations, [40-8]
Suspender liquors, [172]
── pits, [169]
Sweat glands, [6]
Sweating hides, [145-7]
Sweet-fern tannin, [54]
Table, analyses of spring and river waters, [89]
──, capacity of air for moisture, [249]
──, head for passing air, [253]
──, heating effect of pipes, [250]
──, hygrometric, [249]
──, reactions of tannins, [112]
──, standard solutions, [97]
Tan burning furnaces, [164]
── liquor, determining free acids in, [108-11]
Tanneries, construction, [231-42]
──, maintenance, [231-42]
Tanning defined, [1]
── materials, commerce, [270]
── ──, commercial, [23-56]
── ──, exhausting, [161-8]
── ── for sole leather, [157-68]
── ──, grinding, [158-61]
Tannins, action on gelatin, [57]
──, analysing, [118-31]
──, bloom from, [62]
──, characters, [57-8]
──, chemistry of, [57-82]
──, classification, [64]
──, constitution, [76-82]
──, decomposition by acids, [68-73]
──, ── by heat, [65]
──, exhausting, [117]
──, general chemistry, [59-64]
──, ── methods of examination, [65-75]
──, preparation, [58]
──, products of decomposition by heat, [65-8]
──, purification, [58]
──, qualitative detection, [111-4]
──, quantitative determination, [114-31]
──, reagents for analysing, [120-3]
──, sampling, [116]
──, table of reactions, [112]
Taps for exhausting tan, [164-8]
Tawed leather, [223]
Tawhero towai bark, [56]
Tawing defined, [1]
Tecoma bark, [56]
Terminalia fruits, [38]
Terra japonica, [23-5], [29-31]
Tiffany's bate, [185]
Tipuana wood, [40]
Trade in skins, [255-70]
Transparent hide-sections, [13]
Traubeneiche bark, [38]
Turkey galls, [26-8]
Turret driers, [245]
Tutu tannin, [54]
Uncaria extract, [29-31]
Undressed leather, commerce, [265]
── skins, commerce, [263]
Unhairing hides, [139-56]
── ── by lime, [139-45]
── ── by sulphides, [147-50]
── ── by sweating, [145-7]
Valonia, [50-3]
──, commerce, [271]
── for sole leather, [157]
Varnished leather, commerce, [265]
Vélanèdes, [50-3]
Ventilation of drying-sheds, [246]
Virginia creeper, [67]
Wagatea pods, [56]
Walrus skins, [263]
Wash leather, [210-2]
Water as used in tanning, [83-9]
──, counteracting chlorides in, [87]
──, detecting various impurities in, [99]
──, dissolved mineral matters in, [84]
──, effect of salt in, [86]
──, estimating chlorine in, [98]
──, ── hardness of, [97]
──, examination of, [97-100]
──, filtering, [83]
──, hardness of, [85]
──, influence on plumping, [85]
──, permanent hardness of, [84]
──, suspended matters in, [83]
──, table of spring and river, [89]
Wattle-bark, [34-8]
── ── plantations, [36-7]
Weinmannia bark, [56]
Wet hides, commerce, [263]
Whawhako tannin, [54]
Whitening in currying, [195]
Wilson's spring butt-roller, [181]
── striking machine, [181]
Wu-pei-tze galls, [29]

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