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for manure, &c. 357A to 361, Waste
Rigging for re-use. 362 to 365, Illustrations
of the use of Waste Silk. 366 to 368,
Glycerine Suds, Price’s Candle Company,
London. Water from the boiling of acidi-
fied Palm Oil, containing Glycerine formerly
allowed to run to Waste; Rock Glycerine
obtained from the water of the boiling tubs,
after neutralisation of the free acid and
concentration of the resulting weak Solu
tion of Glycerine.. Price’s pure Glycerine,
for medicinal and other purposes. Uses of
Animal Hair and Waste Wool. 369 to 386,
Illustration of, and application of Human,
Horse, and other Hair. 387 to 392, Skin,
Wool, &c., from tanneries; White Cape
Sheep Wool, 7^1. per lb.; White Goat’s
Hair, for mops, yarns, coarse blankets,
&c., price, white, 6Jd. per lb., grey, 2.1d.
per lb. ; Feit Soles from Cow Hair; Hair
Feit for steam packings, Plasterer’s Hair,
for using with mortar; the Cow Hair
collected from tanneries, worth £10 to
£ 12 per ton. 393 to 400, Hide and Skin
Waste Glue pieces, old Parchments for
Glue, Gelatine, Manure, &c. 401 to 403,
Blood Albumen, Dried Blood for Dyeing
and for Manure. 404 to 406, Uses of Scrap
Leather and Leather Waste. 407 to 427,
Uses of Bones, Refuse Bones, J inch Bones
for manure, Bone Dust, Bone Ash, Dissolved
Bones, Calcined Bones, Rough Animal
Charcoal, Grain ditto, Pow'dered ditto, Bone
on Ivory Chart, Sulphate of Ammonia,
Brown Bone Fat, White Bone Fat; applica-
tions of Bone Cuttings and sections ; Shank
Bone of Giraffe. 428 to 436, Applications
of Horns, Hoofs, and Antiers, Glue Handles,
&c. ; Polished Öx-Hoof Pincushion, Horse-
hoof Candlesticks, Hartshorn Shavings,
Prussiate of Potash, &c. 437 to 441, Uses
of Ivory Cuttings, Ivory Dust, &c. 442
to 447, Uses of Waste Feathers and
Quills for Bedding, Toothpicks, Handles
for Camel’s Hair Pencils, Pipemouth Pieces,
Waste for Manure, Emu Feathers Dyed for
Ornaments, Porcupine Quills. 448 to 468,
Industrial uses of common or waste Shells,
contributed by Mr. S. Jacob, Ploundsditch,
London. 468A, the Money Cowry (cypria
moneta), used for small payments in Africa
and India; various species of Cowry
used for making Studs, Links, Snuff-
boxes, &c. ; Venice Shells, for head-
dresses, necklets and bracelets ; variously
named small Shells, used for covering
boxes, making shell flowers, pincushions,
and other ornamental objects ; Small Pearl
Oyster-shells from Ceylon, formerly w-asted,
now used for their ; Pearl Buttons ;
Shell Lime; Shells used for holding gold and
silver paint. 469 to 480, Utilisation of Waste
from the Fisheries; Eel Skins for whip
lashes, &c.; Sole Skins for clarifying coffee ;
Fish Maws, Brazil Gilbakre Glue of West
Indian Isinglass (Siluous Paskerii); Cana
dian Shred Isinglass (seemingly fish bones);
Fish Scales for artificial flowers and other
Ornaments; Cuttle-fish Bone, for tooth-
powder and pounce; Shark’s Fin; Gela-
tinous Edible ; Shark Oil ; Tunny-fish Oil;
Sardine Oil; Dog-fish Oil; Penquin Oil;
Neatsfoot Oil; Frame showing Uses of a
Dead Horse. 482, 483, Uses of Waste
Sponge. 484, Pipe Coral, used for making
tooth powder. 485, Rabbit’s Down, for stuf
fing beds, sold at 4d. per lb. 486, Egg
Albumen. 487 to 492, Utilisation of Rags
of mixed animal and woolly fibres under
Mr. F. O. Ward’s Chemical process. 493 to
508, Illustrations of Alum Manufacture,
contributed by Mr. P. Spence, Manchester,
1, Raw Shale of the coal measures ; 2, Shale
calcined ready for digestion in sulphuric
acid; 3, Pyrites as used in patent calciner
for sulphuric acid making ; 4, Gasworks’
Sulphuretted Oxide as used in patent kilns for
sulphuric acid making; 5, Pyrites after its sul-
phur has been burnt out; 6, Gasworks’ Oxide
after its sulphur has been burnt out; 7, Ni
trate of Sodaas used in sulphuric acid making;
8, Sulphuric Acid (specific gravity 1.60),
equal 120 degs., as used for alum making;
9, Refuse Ammoniacal Liquor of the Gas
works, as used for alum making: 10, First
Crystals in their mother liquor; 11, First
Crystals washed; 12, Lump Alum finally
crystallised ; 13, Mother Liquor of the final
crystallisation; 14, Ground Alum; 15, Phos
phate of Alumina from the West Indies ; 16,
Crystal of Alum. 509 to 512, Recovery of
Photographers’ waste; from Mr. J. Solomon,
Red Lion Square, London :—1, Waste Cut
tings from paper impregnated with silver;
2, Burnt Paper Dust; 3, Waste Developing
Water acted on by copper; 4, Nitrate of
Silver as recovered. 513 to 516, Specimens
and uses of Asphalte. 517 to 522, Auriferous
and Titanic iron sands, useful for moulding
purposes and smelting. 328, 329, Residues