NOTE. It is thought proper to reprint here, as a necessary completion 

 to the preceding Treatises, the Memoir of P. D'!NCARVILLE upon Wild 

 Silk Worms. This important work, which is only found in a collection of 

 16 Volumes, of the Memoirs of the missionaries of Peking, (Paris, 1777) 

 may prove very useful to the raisers, if, as it is to be hoped, the Govern- 

 ment receive the eggs of wild silk worms from M. Louis Hubert, who 

 has been sent to the coasts of China, to obtain such valuable species of the 

 silk worm and mulberry as do not exist in Europe, 



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