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require. If ithls subject more fully entered into in another 

 article will interest you and your members and suit your 

 columns, I shall be happy to enlarge on it from the various 

 points of bis able lecture. 



1 am, dear friend, 



Tours faithfully, 



Caeolina H. Moeris. 



"*• .Silk Supply Association, 65, Moorgate street, 



London, 15th February 1870. 



To Mrs. C. H. Moeeis. 



Dear Madam, 



In reply to yours of yesterday, I shall be glad if in writing 

 to Mr. L. Boaton, you would tell him that the Mauritius silk 

 excited much admiration at our meeting, and it was considered 

 that where such silk would be produced, it placed the question 

 of rearing silk worms beyond a doubt. At the same time the 

 question of reeling on the spot is one that the colonists are best 

 capable themselves of determining. It is difficult with such 

 samples of silk before us to say anything about reeling, as at 

 present these specimens would have a value of from 26 to 30s 

 per lb. and before they had been so much broken, probably 

 much more. (1) It is evident that the gentleman (2) who 

 reared and produced this silk has not much to learn in serici- 

 culture, but still we recommend in our colonies, making it 

 more of a farming operation doing without skilled labour, and 

 sending home only the cocoons. 



I remain, dear Madam, 



Tours faithfully, 



B. JFeancis Cobb, 

 Honorary Secretary. 



(1) The specimen of silk sent to London,' ar.d above' allnded to , was reel- 

 ed in 1849, about twenty years ago. 



(2) Mr. H. C. Descroizilles. 



