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MancueEsterR LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 
Extract from Procerpinas of the MicroscopicaL SECTION of 
the LiteRaRry and Puitosopuican Soctrry, 19¢h October. 
A letter dated 15th May, 1863, was read from Captain J. 
Mitchell, of Madras, addressed to the President, presenting copies 
of Report published by the Madras Government, and stating that 
the almost universal opinion, that the cotton fibre is of a flattened 
form consisting almost entirely of membrane, is one founded on 
error as far as the general form of well-nourished cotton fibre is 
concerned. 
Captain Mitchell further stated that an examination of many 
varieties of cotton had led him to believe that in those cottons 
which find most favour in the English market there is a very large 
proportion of hairs that are entirely or nearly filled with second 
deposits, and on the contrary in the low-priced cottons, the flat 
fibre consisting of hardly anything but membrane, in fact, an 
apparently undernourished cell predominates, the knotty por- 
