Excerpt from Report on Clothing and Woven Fabrics, Being Classes Twenty-Seven to Thirty-Nine of Group Four, 1870
The United States Commissioners to the Paris Exposition of 1867 appointed a committee consisting of Professor J. Lawrence Smith, Doctor W. E. Johnston, and myself, to report on the Products of Chemistry, on the Preparation of Food, and upon Clothing.
It was not found convenient to pursue this labor jointly, and the report on chemicals was undertaken by Commissioner Smith, the report on food by Commissioner Johnston, and that upon clothing was left to the undersigned.
Without any special qualifications for this work derived from my habitual pursuits, or any opportunity for preparation, I occupied myself with the collection of materials and memoranda for the report. Among the more important of these materials I mention the valuable reports in French upon some of the classes by members of the International Jury, from which translations have been freely made. With these reports, and with the excellent assistance I was able to procure, I have completed the task which fell to me, and now submit the result to the Department with the hope that it may be found of some practical interest and value.
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