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The Conservation of Bookbinding Leather: A Report Prepared by the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association for the British Library.

Previous articleNext article No AccessShorter NoticesThe Conservation of Bookbinding Leather: A Report Prepared by the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association for the British Library.Richard W. ClementRichard W. Clement Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Library Quarterly Volume 56, Number 2Apr., 1986 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/601758 Views: 4Total views on this site Copyright 1986 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association

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British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association: Open Days

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The influence of tannins on the degradation of pectin by pectinase enzymes.

Research Article| September 01 1958 The influence of tannins on the degradation of pectin by pectinase enzymes D. E. Hathway; D. E. Hathway 1The British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association, Milton Park, Egham, Surrey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar J. W. T. Seakins J. W. T. Seakins 1The British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association, Milton Park, Egham, Surrey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Biochem J (1958) 70 (1): 158–163. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0700158 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation D. E. Hathway, J. W. T. Seakins; The influence of tannins on the degradation of pectin by pectinase enzymes. Biochem J 1 September 1958; 70 (1): 158–163. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0700158 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsBiochemical Journal Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1958 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS1958 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Hides, skins and leather under the microscope Pp. 368. The British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association, Egham, Surrey. 1957. E8 10s. net

Hides, skins and leather under the microscope Pp. 368. The British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association, Egham, Surrey. 1957. E8 10s. net

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Book reviewed in this article:The Microscopic Diagnosis of Tropical Diseases.—“Bayer”Annotated Bibliography of Works in Latin Alphabet Languages on Biological Microtechnique.—Freda Gray and Peter Gray.Practical Microscopical Metallography.—Richard Henry Greaves and Harold Wrighton.Analytical Microscopy.—T. E. Wallis.Microphotography—Photography at Extreme Resolution.—G. W. W. Stevens.Microscope, Construction, Use and Care.—Y. K. Sane, B.Sc.Hides, Skins and Leather under the Microscope.—British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association.

British leather manufacturers' research association.

British leather manufacturers' research association.

Sir Robert Pickard, F.R.S

ROBERT HOWSON PiCKARD was the eldest son of the late J. H. Piokard, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, and was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Camp Hill, Mason College, where he studied chemistry under Tilden and P. F. Frankland ; and the University of Munich, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1898. A year later he was appointed head op the Chemical Department of Blackburn Technical College, and he became principal eight years later, at the early age of thirty-one. He held this dual post until he moved to London in 1919 to become principal of Battersea Polytechnic. Here he undertook additional duties as director of the newly formed British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association, an organisation with which he was later associated in an advisory capacity up to the time of his death. During this period he served on the Senate of the University of London and on the councils of the British Launderers' Research Association, the Boot, Shoe and Allied Trades Research Association, and on many important committees including the Burn-ham Committee, of which he was for some time secretary. He was director of the British Cotton Industry Research Association during 1927-43, vice-chancellor of the University of London (1937-39), chairman of the Chemical Council (1936-38), and president of the Institute of Chemistry (1936-39). He was a past president of the Society of Chemical Industry, twice vice-president of the Chemical Society, a member of the Research Committee of the Federation of British Industries, and chairman of the Committee of Directors of Research Associations. He was knighted in 1937.

Leather Industries at Leeds: Prof. D. McCandlish

PROF. DOUGLAS MCCANDLISH, who is retiring from the chair of leather industries in the University of Leeds, was a student in the Department under the late Prof. H. R. Procter. After the award of his M.Sc. degree he became chief chemist in the well-known upper-leather tannery of A. F. Gallun and Sons in Milwaukee, U.S.A. Returning to Great Britain in 1919, he was appointed to the chair at Leeds. Prof. McCandlish's researches have ranged widely within the field of leather technology, on chrome tanning, measurement of pH value, the atmospheric deterioration of leather, the molecular structure of collagen in relation to the vegetable-tanning process, and various aspects of the analysis of tannins and leather ; he edited the handbook on quantitative tannin analysis for the British Section of the International Society of Leather Trades’ Chemists. During the Second World War he was active in overcoming shortages of essential materials. Prof. McCandlish has been president of the International Society of Leather Trades’ Chemists, and was its treasurer for about twenty-seven years, up to its dissolution in 1947. He was president during 1926-27 of the British Section (now the Society of Leather Trades’ Chemists), and his counsel, always available, has been a great stabilizing influence in the Society. He has been a co-opted member of council of the British Leather Manufacturers’ Research Association since its inception in 1920, and chairman of the advisory committee on leather subjects of the City and Guilds of London Institute for more than twenty years. He has also played his part in the social and civic life of Leeds.

Dr. D. Jordan Lloyd

DOROTHY JORDAN LLOYD was born in 1889, the daughter and grand-daughter of two prominent surgeons in Birmingham. It would appear natural that her early studies at Newnham College were in zoology, later physiological and then physico-chemical studies of muscle. During the First World War, her scientific pursuits were diversified, and under the auspices of the Medical Research Committee she was one of a team which studied substitutes for components of culture media for bacteria which were then in short supply. Then her brilliant short paper on the causes and prevention of ropiness in bread was most appropriate to war-time, and indicated the versatility of her mind. Under the stimulating influences of Gowland Hopkins and particularly of W. B. Hardy, she was led to the long-sustained studies of swelling in colloidal systems, which when carried over to the 'structured' proteins in animal skins gained for her the firmly established international reputation as the authority on the chemistry of leather which she held at her death on November 21, 1946. Thus, zoology in Part II of the Tripos followed by the M.A.(Cantab.), research in physiology followed by the D.Sc.(LoncL), after some interval the fellowship of the Institute of Chemistry in 1922, authorship of a standard work, “Chemistry of the Proteins” (first edit., 1926 ; second, with Ann Shore, 1938) and the directorship of the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association (1927-46) are the signposts of an exceptional career.

British Cotton Industry Research Association: Sir Robert Pickard, F.R.S

SIR ROBEBT PICKARD has for so long been a figure in scientific and educational circles that his retirement, with the close of 1943, from the directorship of the British Cotton Industry Research Association marks something of an epoch. It is seventeen years since he was appointed to succeed the first director, Dr. Crossley, at the Shirley Institute, and all that time it has been his endeavour and pride to build it up until to-day it is the splendid organization that we know, with a staff of more than three hundred and fifty, including eighty graduates. The Cotton Research Association was Sir Robert's particular interest, the child that he brought to vigorous manhood, but he has been a champion of co-operative research associations in general, and it is a question whether any other man has done more for the movement. He was the first director of the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association before he went to the Shirley, and he has served besides on the councils of two other research associations. It is good to learn that his retirement does not mean that his services to industrial research will be lost entirely, for, doubtless among other activities, he will still be retained as a consultant by both the Associations he has directed.

British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association. Decontamination of leather contaminated with mustard gas

British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association. Decontamination of leather contaminated with mustard gas

The Vinegar Eelworm in Tan Liquor.

Three eelworm-infested samples of a liquor used for tanning hides were recently forwarded to Prof. R. T. Leiper by Dr. D. Jordan Lloyd, Director of Research to the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association. I am indebted to Prof. Leiper who identified the worm as Turbatrix aceti for the opportunity of examining and reporting upon this material.

The Disinfection of Anthrax-Infected Dried Hides in the Dry Condition by Means of Hydrogen Sulphide

1. Hydrogen sulphide has been found to have a destructive action on dry anthrax spores.2. Disinfection of hard, dry, very resistant infected hide specimens, in conditions both of ease and difficulty of access of the disinfecting gas, has been obtained by treatment with hydrogen sulphide at 20° and at 37° C. in periods of 7–16 days.3. The fact that hydrogen sulphide, in the experimental conditions described, penetrates to the middle of a bundle of leather pockets has been verified by its action in disinfecting (sometimes partially—sometimes completely) anthrax-infected threads placed in the middle of such a bundle.4. Increase of the temperature at which treatment is carried out has been found to hasten disinfection.5. Disinfection of anthrax-infected threads has been obtained by treatment with equal parts of hydrogen sulphide and air in 3 days at 60° C.The author wishes to thank the Council of the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association for permission to publish this paper, which was submitted to them in the private and confidential report for 1930 of the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association.

The absorption of water by gelatin

Research Article| January 01 1931 The absorption of water by gelatin: Part VII. The influence of temperature on swelling in acid solutions and the combination of gelatin with hydrochloric, nitric or sulphuric acid Winnifred Bertha Pleass Winnifred Bertha Pleass 1The Laboratories of the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Biochem J (1931) 25 (6): 1943–1948. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0251943 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation Winnifred Bertha Pleass; The absorption of water by gelatin: Part VII. The influence of temperature on swelling in acid solutions and the combination of gelatin with hydrochloric, nitric or sulphuric acid. Biochem J 1 January 1931; 25 (6): 1943–1948. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0251943 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsBiochemical Journal Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1931 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS1931 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.