Oxidation of Polyethylene: A Comparison of Plasma and Ultraviolet Ozone Processing Techniques

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...prints, the only form of pictorial art within reach of rich and poor alike in those days, the aesthetic wants of the masses were satisfied, for in them were reflected their life and their ideals. Mindful only of the present and quite unaware of the artistic worth of these mirrors of their existence, neither artist nor public made any serious attempt to preserve them for posterity; and to this indifference we may in part attribute the gaps in every important collection. K. T. Drawing Degas Chinese and Japanese Art. Seven pieces of Chinese stone sculpture; three pieces of Japanese wood sculpture; ten Chinese bronze mirrors; Chinese bronze dish; Chinese bronze bottle; Chinese bronze vase; Chinese gilt bronze ornament; three pieces of Chinese jade; two Chinese pottery jars; Chinese pottery head; three Japanese swords; Japanese halberd; four Japanese paintings; live Chinese paintings; one Japanese Buddhist sutra; one specimen of Chinese calligraphy; five rubbings of Chi-nese stone carvings Purchased from the heirs of Okakura Kakuzo. Six Japanese prints Received in exchange for one print from the Bigelow Collection. Japanese revamped print by Toyonobu.. Anonymous gift. Japanese print by Hiroshige Purchased. Twenty-four Japanese paintings: nineteen kakemono; four makimono; one makuri.. Gift of William Sturgis Bigelow.. Indian Art. Eight Nepalese paintings Pottery Jar Tang Dynasty (temple banners) Purchased. Western Art. Porcelain mirror frame; Meissen group; English vase; English eighteenth century glass decanter; Sevres dish and covered bowl; Empire chair (French); Italian or Spanish bronze head; Cossack knife, pistol and powder-horn.. Gift of George Peabody Gardner. Silver spoon, by B. C. Frobisher; silver spoon, by J. Osgood; two...