Part V.] Pearson : Note on the Utilization of Bamboo. 3 
The writer of this report, with a view to collecting further information 
as to the lines on which the enquiry should be carried out, visited 
three of the largest paper-mills in India, and by the courtesy of the 
Managers of those mills, was able to ascertain what further data would 
be required by pulp manufacturers before they would consider the pos¬ 
sibility of starting a mill in which bamboo would be used as the raw 
material. Their chief difficulty was the want of definite information 
as regards localities from which a large sustained yield of bamboos could 
be obtained at cheap rates and the possibility of manufacturing a 
fixed grade of pulp within a workable figure of cost. Messrs. Sindall 
and Eaitt have proved, by their laboratory tests, that fair pulp could be 
made from bamboos, but the information as to supply, cost and grade 
of pulp when worked on commercial lines still remained to be collected. 
To overcome these difficulties, the areas above mentioned were 
carefully inspected and extensive countings and weighings of bamboos 
carried out to obtain figures of yield, while to obtain a practical proof of 
the quality and cost of preparing pulp from bamboos, about 80 tons of raw 
material, of four different species of bamboos, were sent to the Tita- 
ghur Paper Mills and through the good services of the Managing 
Agents, Messrs. F. W. Hedgers of Calcutta, the whole was converted 
into pulp and eventually into paper. 
The writer of this report also wishes to acknowledge the help which 
has been given him by various officers of the Forest Department, firms 
and private persons, without whose assistance it would have been quite 
impossible to carry out the enquiry. 
While touring in various Provinces of India and in Burma he received 
the greatest help and kindness from all Forest Officers ; it is impossible 
for want of space to mention more than a few of these officers by name. 
Amongst those who rendered the greatest assistance were Messrs. 
M. Hill, C. G. Rogers, F. A. Leete, G. E. S. Cubitt, J. J. Rorie, 
H. L. P. Walsh, H. C. Walker, C. H. Philipp, J. V. Young, G. H. 
Alington and E. M. Buchanan in Burma ; Messrs. T. R. D. Bell, 
L. S. Osmaston, W. E. Copleston, A. G. Edie, W. A. H. Miller and 
G. S. Butterworth in Bombay ; and Messrs. F. A. Lodge, G. F. F. 
Faulkes, D. T. Barry and A. Wimbush in Madras. 
Mr. Coventry, formerly Imperial Forest Chemist, carried out 
laboratory tests with bamboos at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra 
Dun, and further laboratory tests, the results of which are given 
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