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scientific man now living has fought so many battles 

 as he. To enable him to render his experiments 

 decisive, the French Emperor placed a villa at his dis- 

 posal near Trieste, where silkworm culture had been 

 carried on for some time at a loss. The success here 

 is described as marvellous ; the sale of cocoons giving 

 to the villa a net profit of twenty- six millions of francs. 1 

 From the Imperial villa M. Pasteur addressed to me 

 a letter, a portion of which I have already published. 

 It may perhaps prove usefully suggestive to our Indian 

 or Colonial authorities if I reproduce it here : 



' Permettez-moi de terminer ces quelques lignes que 

 je dois dieter, vaincu que je suis par la maladie, en 

 vous faisant observer que vous rendriez service aux 

 Colonies de la Grande-Bretagne en repandant la con- 

 naissance de ce livre, et des principes que j'etablis 

 touchant la maladie des vers a soie. Beaucoup de ces 

 colonies pourraient cultiver le murier avec succes, et, 

 en jetant les yeux sur mon ouvrage, vous vous con- 

 vaincrez aisement qu'il est facile aujourd'hui, non- 

 seulement d'eloigner la maladie regnante, mais en 

 outre de donner aux recoltes de la soie une prosperite 

 qu'elles n'ont jamais eue.' 



The studies on wine prepare us for the ' Studies 

 on Beer,' which followed the investigation of silkworm 



1 The work on Diseases of Silkworms was dedicated to the 

 Empress of the French. 



