PAPERmaking! g FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TECHNOLOGY Volume 6, Number 2, 2020
1940-42) on “The Hydration of Cellulose in Papermaking” (1926) and “Further Notes on the Hydration of Cellulose in Paper Making” (1932), and the First and Seconds Reports of the Paper Testing Committee to the Technical Section – the First Report produced the early British Standards for a wide variety of common paper test equipment, 12 and the Second Report outlined the handsheet making process still used today. In addition to the Proceedings , a Bibliography of Periodical Publications on Papermaking and Allied Subjects was produced annually from 1921 onwards, 13 and from 1924 a monthly Technical Abstracts publication started, 14 which changed name to the Technical Bulletin a decade later. 15 The Bulletin became the ‘house’ journal of the Section, containing news, articles, and extended abstracts from foreign journals, and lasted into the 1950s. Also, ad hoc publications appeared over time, such as For Your Safety , and the textbook Papermaking . The minutes of the Annual General Meetings were also published in these Proceedings , which contain much interesting detail about the Section (such as membership numbers – see Figure 1), in addition to general items of interest, including: problems of selling technical textbooks (nothing changes!); the fact that University College, London, was the site where much of the early research undertaken by the Section was performed; 16 the establishment of a library at the Association headquarters in Farringdon Street, London; 17 and presentation by Messrs. Walmsley (Bury) Ltd of a new Paper Machine to Manchester College of Technology (which became UMIST). 18
Figure 1: Graph showing the growth in membership over the first six decades of the Section . In particular, the period during WWII was obviously very difficult for the Section; membership declined and the Proceedings were noticeably thinner. However it is interesting to note that some highly topical presentations were published at this time, such as on problems to do with quality and availability of waste paper. 19 The Section also consulted upon increasing production of boards and encouraging use of waste paper, 20 and then on use of alternative fibre resources. 21 Interestingly, it is during this period that the purchase of the Clayton Beadle Collection of Watermarks for the Technical Section’s Library was made; 22 one cannot help but wonder whether this was in part to save it from being pulped! Also noted in the Section minutes is the sending of technical literature on papermaking and allied trades to prisoners of war, 23 apparently enabling them to undertake study in papermaking technology in the various camps in Germany and Italy. 24
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