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Rev. E. C. BoLLEs presented to the Institute about 

 seventy-five examples of East Indian and Japanese paper, 

 the former obtained in London through the kindness of 

 M. C. Cooke, Esq., and the latter derived from exchange 

 with the Agricultural Department at Washington. After 

 speaking of the ancient paper made by expanding sec- 

 tions of the cellular tissues of plants, as the papyrus of 

 the Egyptians and the rice paper of the Chinese, Mr. 

 Bolles called attention to the fact that the Japanese paper 

 exhibited to the Institute was made from the bark of the 

 Paper Mulberry {Broussonetia papyri/era) , the same sub- 

 stance which, beaten out without pulping, forms the 

 Tappa cloth of the Sandwich Islanders. One remarkable 

 thing about the series of paper presented was its range 

 of texture and weight ; as the examples exhibited the 

 most delicate and beautiful tracing paper, the coarsest 

 "board," and most of the intermediate grades. Many 

 specimens, especially those used for book-binding and 

 box-covering, were profusely and artistically ornamented 

 in color. A very tine and gauzy paper was shown as the 

 goldsmiths' substitute for cotton. Perhaps the most curi- 

 ous was the vegetable leather, not to be distinguished in 

 weight, color or flexibility from the best morocco for 

 binders' use. A description of the manufacture of this 

 may be found in the "Journal of the Franklin Institute" 

 for January, 1875. 



The East Indian paper was manufactured from a greater 

 variety of substances. Some from Cashmere was from 

 waste silk and examples from Berar from bamboo. A 

 very delicate, highly colored and tough paper was the 

 "kite paper" of Oude. Accompanying this series were 

 the bark of Broussonetia j)apyrifera and Daphne canna- 

 hina, with the pulps made from both. 



It is understood that these series are only in commence- 



