Jjgl. BATH SOCIETY. 3t 



hat were the rearing of filk eftabliflied in fome parts of Scot- 

 and, where living is cheap and the price of labour low, it 

 vould turn out to be an objedt of importance to places of the 

 ibove defcription. 



Should any of the ladies or gentlemen of your acquaintance, 

 )r readers, who have time and opportunity to make experi- 

 nents to find out the beft method of rearing filk in Scotland, 

 ; will fupply them this year with a few eggs ot that ufefulinfect, 

 ;he filk worm moth. 

 Sir, 



I Remain vour moft obedient fervant, 

 ANDREW WHIGHT. 

 Pai/Iey, Aug. 31. 1791. 



Tbe following circular Letter has been lately recei-ved by the Edi- 

 tor of this Mifcdlany ; as it re/pefts a fubjeSl of great impor- 

 tance, he refpeBfully requefls the fa-vour of any of his readers 

 ivho may have had occafion 10 obferve any faBs relatiije to 

 the objeB of eitquiry, to communicate them {pofl paid) to hi/ti, 

 which he jhaH take care to for^jjard to the Bath Society. He 

 remembers to ha've feen, feveral years ago, a good many Fir 

 trees, in the ifland of Arran, gnaixied through abo've ground, fo 

 as to make them perifJj, and iL:as told this luas done by the 

 Jhrerjj moiife. — He never fanu any <w:ld fquirrels in Scotland^ 

 himfelf, but has heard there are fome of thefe animals in Sal^ 

 ton and Humbie (foods, in Eaft Lothian. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



Bath and Weji of England Society for the Encou- 

 ragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufadures, 

 and Commerce. 



SIR, 



This Society has been informed by. feveral gentlemen reCdent 

 In the counties of homerfet and Wilts, that of late years very- 

 great damage has been done to their Fir-planlations, efpecially 

 among the Scotch Firs, by fquirrelt preying upon the bark, in- 



