Lecture to Rotary on Progress of an Ancient Art Mr, Walter Schultz gave an_instructive and interesting. classi tion talk on the "history and a of tanning "leather," at's the tifin meeting of the Rotary Club, held "On September 1d at the Metropole "Hotel. 'The' chairman Mr. "Hugo Sandor, wel ice Dre Fong See, "Director of Rotary International, who-has fast" returned. from the" United States, those present giving him a very warm welcome.
'Mr. W. Schultz said that the origin of the art of making leather wros obscured. in the mists' ity. Certain ie was that tannin nated far. beyond the dawn of ivlisation. From the very earliest time, what knowledge there was of the art of making leather was pass-'l'on from father to son and there steve no marked changes nor much ogress until the beginning of the century, In 1884 August Schultz, in America, patented the two-bath chrome tannage and 189% Martin Dennis patented th ingle-bath method of chrome taning. These were epoch-making, ers. During the past 35 years some fof the world's greatest chemists and eientistyhad™ been investigating problems of importance to tanning. and considerable progress had been made, with considerable more immediate prospect.
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