Show X 7 1 X X X x 7 c JE f- f Y l iE FX FX R x x yx cX t How I Wood Came to Be Used in Making Paper It Is hard today when forests are being demolished to provide paper to realize how lately paper was first made monde from wood writes Mark ark S. S Watson Vat Wat Vatson son in the Baltimore Sun The Chinese had bad used fibers and the early European papers were made from shredded ru rugs s which of ot course ex- ex explains explains ex plains why paper of or that day was so much more durable But not until 1719 did Reaumur the time eminent French ph physicist propose that wood be used And oddly his inspiration came from the humble wasp whose nests form very ery fine paper They extract the fibers of or common common common com com- mon wood he lie writes The They teach us that paper can be made from the fibers of ot plants without the use of ot otra ra rags s and linen and seem to invite us to tr try whether we cannot make fine and good paper from frum Certain woods In succeeding decades Reaumur's advice and the tho unabated demonstrations demonstrations by the humble wasp captured an nn Increasing amount of ot attention but It was in 1765 that there started the most notable developments in the use of ot new materials as substitutes for rags These were the work of Jacob Schaffer a Saxon clergyman man manthen then resident in Bavaria wh who like Gilbert White of Selbourne Is better known for his scientific contributions I than for his clerical labors I 1 |