THIS is a companion volume to the one on “The Structure of the Cotton Fibre,” which was reviewed in these columns in July, 1908, and is to be followed by a third volume dealing with the silk fibre.

The British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world’s better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile ...

IN earlier investigations of the structure of wool 1, two fractions were obtained by peracetic acid – ammonia treatment of the keratin. One fraction was found to be soluble in weak ammonia, leaving ...