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Order No. 415 
IN PRESS. 
PHILIPPINE HAT MAKING. 
By C. B. Robinson. 
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(Reprinted from Section C. Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. VI, No. 2.) 
Price $o.8o United States currency, postpaid. 
The work covers the whole field of the subject, the origin and 
history of hat making so far as the Philippines are concerned, the 
materials used, methods of preparation, the actual hats and the dif- 
ference between them, their prices, statistics of the export trade 
in them, brief comparisons with the products of -other countries in 
the eastern tropics, and the commercial situation and outlook. ^ it 
embodies also short notes on mat making and other allied industries. 
The headings are as follows: Introduction, scat of industry, history, 
species of plants used, means of distinguishing the principal kinds 
of riiilippine liats, bamboo hats, burl hats, buri-leaf hats, buntal hats, 
and buri-midrib or Calasiao hats, pandan hats including sabotan, ba- 
langot hats, hemp hats, nito hats, ticog or tayoctayoc hats, materials oi 
minor importance, straw hats, salacots, mat making, cigar-cases ana 
cigarette-cases, bags and baskets, general considerations and acknowl- 
edgments. - , . , _. , 
This is an extensive, well-illustrated article, the result of nfacli re- 
search work, extending over a period of many months. For those inter- 
ested in hat manufacturing the work will be found authoritative and 
valuable. 
N0TE.-Order« should be sent to the Business Manager PhiUppineJ^^^ of Science, 
Manila, or to any of the below-listed agents. Please give Order Numtoer. 
FOREIGN AGENTS. 
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Mr. Martinus Nijhoff. Nobelstraat 18, The Hague, Holland Germany. 
Messrs. Mayer & Miilier. Prinz Louis Ferdmandstrasse 2 Berlin >.^^^^^^^ 
Messrs. Kelley & Walsh. Limited, 32 Raffles P^^«- ^'^eapore btraiis be 
Messrs. A. U. & J. Ferguson, 19 Baillie Street. Colombo, Ceylon. 
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