In a letter
recently received from Sir Henry (1906), he writes: "I agree with you
that this is a good instance of the _direct money value_ of scientific
training, and in these days of 'protection' and similar subterfuges, it
is not amiss to emphasise the fact."
It is thus gratifying to the writer to think that the lectures have had
some influence on the remarkable progress which the British Hat Industry
has made in the twenty years that have elapsed since their delivery.
These lectures were in part printed and published in the _Hatters'
Gazette_, and in part in newspapers of Manchester and Stockport, and
they have here been compiled and edited, and the necessary illustrations
added, etc., by Mr. Albert Shonk, to whom I would express my best
thanks.
WATSON SMITH.
LONDON, _April_ 1906.
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LECTURE PAGE
I. TEXTILE FIBRES, PRINCIPALLY WOOL, FUR, AND HAIR 1
II. TEXTILE FIBRES, PRINCIPALLY WOOL, FUR,
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