This is not a manual for leather manufacture and details have been avoided except where they seemed necessary to the understanding of principles. Chapter headings are as follows: 1) Introductory, 2) Hides and skins, 3) Curing of hides and skins, 4) The structure of the skin, 5) The chemistry of the skin, 6) The preliminary processes. Soaking, 7) Unhairing, 8) Chemical deliming, 9) Bacteria and fermentation, 10) The fermentive Bates , 11) The conversion of skin into leather, 12) The pickling process, 13) Alumed leather, 14) The basic chrome process, 15) The two-bath chrome process, 16) The vegetable tanning materials, 17) The vegetable tanning process, 18) Curried leathers, 19) Moroccos and fancy leathers, 20) oil leathers, 21) The use and care of leather, Bibliography and Index.