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Excerpt from Industrial Fiber Plants of the Philippines: A Description of the Chief Industrial Fiber Plants of the Philippines, Their Distribution, Method of Preparation, and Uses
Bo'tanical descriptions are founded chie?y on A Flora of Manila 1 by Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, botanist, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I., and on a study of the plant specimens in the industrial museum of the Bureau of Education. The writer is also deeply indebted to Mr. Merrill for many helpful suggestions.
Drawings in this bulletin are by Mr. Juan Santos, a student in the University of the Philippines.
Acknowledgment is due for the review of this bulletin in the manuscript to Mrs. T. E. Borden, Mrs. C. E. Ander son, Messrs. H. H. Miller, E. D. Merrill, L. R. Sawyer, J. F. Minier, Luther Parker, U. S. Andes, R. B. Robinson, and Chester G. Farnsworth.
Credit for the information given on the preparation of materials is due to the reports of division superintendents and teachers kept on file in the industrial information department, Bureau of Education, to the Albay Industrial Bulletin No. 4, 1911, and to a number of publications of the Bureau of Education. In part, the information has been compiled from personal observation of the writer.
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