Part V.] Pearson: Note on the Utilization of Bamboo. 7 
Vol. I, No. 10, December 1906, which treats chiefly with bamboos, and 
Part III (conclusion), Vol. II, No. 2, Section A, May 1907. 
W. Raitt’s Report of 1909 .—The latest articles which are to hand on 
this subject appeared in “ Tropical Agriculture” in 1909, under the 
signature of Mr. W. Raitt, a pulp expert, in which he discusses the sulphite 
process, as compared with the soda process, in manufacturing pulp 
from bamboos. In another pamphlet by the same author, in the 
“ Paper Trade Review ” of 1907, is given very useful information collect¬ 
ed by him from sample plots taken in bamboo forests, from which figures 
of yield are calculated. Also interesting are the experiments made by him 
at the Bengal Paper Mills, Ltd., which go to confirm Mr. Sindall’s 
tests carried out by the soda process, when that gentleman was in 
Burma. Raitt went further than Sindall and carried out tests on 
bamboo by the sulphite process, but the latest results obtained by Messrs. 
Raitt and Coventry in India and Mr. Richmond in Manila, go to 
prove that bamboo sulphite pulp is difficult to bleach. His further 
report on this subject entitled “ Report on the Investigation of 
Bamboo as Material for Production of Paper-pulp” is the outcome of 
his experiments carried out at the Forest Research Institute, in which 
he describes the treatment of bamboos by the Soda and Sulphate pro¬ 
cesses. He also deals with the subject of treating the nodes 
together with the internodes, and the treatment of bamboos before 
boiling. This enquiry has been made conjointly with this report and 
is worthy of very careful perusal. 
1908 and 1909 .—In 1908, there appeared three Government publica¬ 
tions on the subject of paper-making in India. One was by Mr. R. T. F. 
Kirk, I.C.S., entitled “ A Monograph on Paper-Making in the Bombay 
Presidency” which deals chiefly with hand-made paper. Another is by 
Mr. D. N. Mookerji, M.A., on “ Paper and Papier-Mache in Bengal” and 
a third bearing the same title, but dealing with the Punjab, by Mr. H. W. 
Emerson. In 1909, a fourth monograph also bearing the same title as 
the above publications, was published by Mr. J. N. Gupta, I.C.S., which 
deals with paper-making in Eastern Bengal and Assam. Not one of 
these four publications throws any light on the manufacture of paper 
from bamboos : they deal chiefly with hand-made paper. 
There is a large amount of miscellaneous literature available on this 
subject, often of a very instructive nature, which has appeared in various 
Indian newspapers and periodicals, none of which, however, deals so 
intimately with the subject of bamboos as do the various reports and 
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