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GOULDING, ERNEST. Cotton and other vegetable fibres; their production and utilisation. ii *$3 Van Nostrand 677
This is a British work based on studies made for the Imperial institute. It is issued as one of the Imperial institute series of handbooks to the commercial resources of the tropics, with a preface by Wyndham R. Dunstan, director of the institute. Contents: Introductory; Cotton; Cotton production in the principal countries and the chief commercial varieties; Cotton growing in British West Africa and other parts of the British empire; Flax, hemp, and ramie; Jute and similar fibres; Cordage fibres; Miscellaneous fibres. A list of principal publications on fibres occupies nine pages and there is an index.
GOWAR, EDWARD. Adventures in Mother Goose land. il *$2.25 Little
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