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you propose to issue them to the public, an order for the sum of 66 (sixty-six 

 pounds) will be transmitted to you. 



The samples of yarn and cloth made from Indian fibre by cotton machinery, 

 which accompany your letter, have been placed 'before Sir Charles Wood. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



HERMAN MERIVALE, 

 Mr. J. H. Dickson. 



THIRD EDITION OF SUBSCRIPTION LIST. 



Additional subscriptions to Dickson's work on Flax-culture, 

 including his mode of preparing rheea, and other East and 

 West Indian Fibres, as substitutes for cotton and Flax, proofs 

 of which have been at the offices of the Privy Council for 

 Trade, Whitehall, and are now in the rooms of the Cotton 

 Supply Association, Manchester. 



s. d. 



The Right lion. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India . .1000 

 The Hon. the East India Company having received specimens of all 

 the Indian fibres alluded to, prepared by Dickson's patent 

 machines and liquids, and also yarn, cord, ship canvass, and 

 drill cloth, made by him from wild rheea (assam grass), and 

 from wild pine-apple, resolved, with a view to circulating gratis, 

 in India, the value of such fibres, when prepared by Dickson's 

 process, for our manufacturers, to subscribe to his work on the 

 subject, the sum of (now payable at the India office, by order 



Sir C. Wood) 66 



Colonel Marks, a member of the Canadian Government, and 

 William Ferguson, Esq., President of the Provincial Agri- 

 cultural Association, Kingston, Canada West, America . . 10 

 'T. Beale Brown, Esq., Salperton, Gloucestershire, who got Dickson's 

 first Flax mill, in 1847, and exhibited at the Northampton 



Agricultural Show 500 



Messrs. Hives and Atkinson, Flax-spinners, Leeds . . .500 



Messrs. Stolterfaught, Sons, and Co., Liverpool . . . .110 

 J. Hardy Wrigley, Esq., J.P. and D. L., Southport, Lancashire . 500 

 Messrs. Atkin and Son, Fleet Street, London . . . .110 



*Capt. C. W. Dakly, Agent General, Auckland, for the Mechanics' 



Institute, three copies 126 



Messrs. W. and A. McArthur, merchants, Sydney, and Moorgate- 



Btreet, London, six copies .250 



N.B. The patent machines are -on wheels, and may be moved about by 

 one horse, from farm to farm, the same as a portable thrashing machine. 



