Order No. 415 
IN PRESS, 
PHILIPPINE HAT MAKING. 
By C. B. Robinson. 
(Reprinted from Section C. Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. VI, No. 2.) 
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Price $0.80 United States currency, postpaid. 
The work covers tlie whole fiekl of the subject, the origin and 
historj' of hat making so far as the Thilippines are concerned, the 
materials used, methods of preparation, the actual hats and the (in- 
ference between them, their prices, statistics of the export trade 
in them, Ijrief comparisons with the products of other countries m 
the eastern tropics, and the commercial situation and outlook U 
embodies also short notes on mat making and other allied industries. 
The headings are as follows: Introduction, seat of industry, history, 
species of plants used, means of distinguislnng the principal kinds 
of Philippine hats, bamboo hats, buri hats, bun-leaf hats, buntal hat>, 
and buri-midrib or Calasiao hats, pandan hats including *abotan ba- 
langot hats, hemp hats, nito hats, tieog or tayoctayoc hats, materials o 
minor importance, straw hats, salacots, mat making, "gar-eases ami 
cigarette-cases, bags and baskets, general considerations and ackno« I; 
'X^% an extensive, well-illustrated article, the result ofin|ich re- 
search work, extending over a period of many months, ^oi hose niter^ 
ested in hat manufacturing the work will be found authontatne and 
valuable. _ 
NOTE-Order. shouia be «n. to tbeB-ines« Manager PhUippin^e^Journ of Science. 
Manila, or to any of the Ijelow-llsted agents. Please give u 
FOREIGN AGENTS. 
The Macmillan Company. 64-66 Fifth Avenue N^^^^^ A^^^^^^ 
Messrs. Wni. Wesley & Son, 28 Essex S^Jf ^^fJ^^^^ioHand 
Mr. Martinus Nijholf. Nobelstraat ISvL^lnnndstnisse 2 Berlin, N. W.. Germany. 
Messrs. Mayer & Mtiller. Prinz Louis FeMmandstrnsse^ ^-^^.^^ Settlements. 
CIKCTILAES AND DESCKIPTIVE MATTER SENT ON APPLICATION. 
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