INDEX. 



235 



Silk continued. 



chiques, 176. 



doubfe, 175. 



flossy, 175. 



good, 175. 



perforated, 175. 



pointed, 175. 



taches, 176. 



weak, 176. 

 culture, 165, 166, 176. 



Parker on, in China, 178-181. 

 Empress of China, 165. 

 Fibre, character and properties of, 



,466-178. - 

 hydrochloric acid, a solvent of silk, 



183. 

 Japanese silkworm, 166. 



food of, 166. 

 lepidoptera, 166. 

 Maclntyre, Mr. John, 177. 

 Muga silk, 174. 

 Pinus chinensis, 177. 

 Schappe silk, 177. 

 sea silk, 183. 

 sericiculture, 176. 

 Shorea robusta, 173. 

 silkworm or larva of silk moth, 165. 



development, 165. 



glands producing silk, 165. 



history of cultivation, 165. 



in China, in England, Spitalfields a 

 centre about 1585, 165. 



number of stages, 170. 



stages in the life of, 170. 



steaming process to soften silk coat- 

 ing, 170. 



wild, 174. 



silk worms and silk moths, 165-178. 

 Silk and wool dyeing, 183. 

 Society of Arts Journal, 176. 

 solutions to detect flax, hemp, cotton, 

 jute, when mixed together ; cellu- | 

 lose converted into gun cotton, 

 182. 



Taylor, J. T., Manchester, 174. 

 Terminalia tomentosa, 172. 

 Thorpe, the late Alderman John, 171. 

 tram and organzine, 177. 



silk, 177. 



tree of heaven, 166. 

 Tussur silk of India, 171. 



fibres (magn.), 173. 



food of moth, 172. 

 vegetable, 78. 

 Wardle, Sir Thomas, 166. 



on the cocoons and fibres, 169. 

 weavers, Flemish, 165. 

 Whitmarsh, Mr. Samuel, 165. 

 wood pulp silk, 184. 



Chardonnet and Lebner, de-nitration, 

 185. 



colours and lustre, 184. 



Silk continued. 



cotton warp and silk weft, 184. 



how prepared, 185. 



inflammability, 185. 



manufactured by patent rights, 185. 

 Silk grass, 74. 



Cuba, 76. 

 Sizal hemp, 59. 

 Soap tree, 64. 

 Soft rush, 64. 

 Somaliland fibre, 64. 

 Spathodea, 64. 

 Sufet bariata, 59. 

 Sunflower, 65. 

 Sunn hemp, 65. 

 Swallow-wort, 75. 

 Sweet gale', 42. 

 Sword sedge, 65. 



TALIPOT palm, 65. 

 Tashiari fibre, 65. 

 Tibisiri fibre, 65. 

 Touchardia fibre, 66. 

 Torquilla, 44. 

 Tucum fibre, 66. 

 Turkish towel, 33. 



VANDA felt. 



Vegetable hair or Spanish moss, 76. 

 silk, 78. 



WATTLED work, 55. 

 Weed, mallow leaved, 67. 

 Wild rhea, 67. 

 Wood date palm, 67. 

 Wool, 185-215. s 

 alpaca, 2/3. / 



alpaca, sheep, 215. * 



length of fibres, 215. 

 analysis of wool, Chevreul, 203. 

 Anthrax or wool sorters' disease, 191. 

 rules to wool combers, 192. 

 duties of employers, 192. 

 duties of persons employed, 192. 

 aoudad, 213. 

 Asiatic wool, 215. 

 botany wools, staples, 191. 

 bur cleaner, Garnett's machine, 195. 

 bur weed, 195. 

 burs and burry wool, 194. 

 chemical composition, 186. 

 effects of food on wool, 189. 

 fibres, cultivation and variation, 186. 

 Burgess, Mr. N., on, 186. 

 diameter of Southdown, Saxony, 



Lincoln, Northumberland, 187. 

 fleece wool, 18ti. 

 glutton or wolverene, 215. 



nativity and uses of fur, 215. 

 grading of staples, 191. 

 Hooker, Sir J. D., on shawl wool 

 goats, 196. 



