My own papers are printed as read. The Bibliography does not profess to be complete, but includes most of the works consulted.
No one realizes more than I how incomplete the work is, and how much research still remains to be done in order to complete it.
Thanks to the efforts of the Leather Industries Department of the University of Leeds, and the Technical College of the Leather Sellers’ Company, Bermondsey, the era of Rule of Thumb is passing, and there is little doubt that the work that is being done in these institutions will be translated into practical use in the factories by the coming generation.
I wish to express my special thanks to Mr. Douglas J. Law, and to Dr. H. J. S. Sand for assistance in preparing the notes for publication, to Dr. J. Gordon Parker, Director of the Leather Sellers’ Technical College, London, for the description of the bating of hides, and to Professor Kràl, of Prague, for some of the photographs of bacteria.
JOSEPH T. WOOD.
Nottingham : January 1912.
PUERING,
BATING, AND DRENCHING OF SKINS
