CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL.
Primitive methods of leather manufacture — Use of leather by the ancients — Progress of leather manufacture in England — Methods of production of leather — Vegetable tannages — Combination tannages — Use of aluminium, iron and chromium — Oil- and fat-leathers — Difficulties of scientific treatment PAGE [1]
CHAPTER II.
INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF LEATHER MANUFACTURE.
The object of tanning — Washing and soaking — Removal of hair by liming — Unhairing by putrefaction — Unhairing and fleshing — Deliming — Bating, puering and drenching — The vegetable tanning process — Currying — Alum, chrome and chamois leathers PAGE [7]
CHAPTER III.
THE LIVING CELL.
The structure of cells — White blood-corpuscles — The yeast-cell — Epidermis cells — The building up of plants PAGE [10]