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The valuable paper of Captain Hutton and the other enclosures 

 have been very carefully read, and have furnished this Society 

 with important information, for which we feel greatly indebted to 

 the gentlemen who have furnished the same. 



I have also to acknowledge receipt of the package of eggs and 

 seeds from Dr. De Yecchy, of Mysore, and have the great satis- 

 faction of saying that they arrived in most excellent condition ; 

 they were immediately placed under the care of Mr. Charles 

 Brady, F.L.S., of Manly, our most experienced silk grower. I 

 enclose copy of Mr. Brady's report, and am happy to add that I 

 am assured of the continued well-doing of the silkworms which 

 have turned out quite healthy, and prove a most valuable acqui- 

 sition to this Colony. 



The Council of this Society is gratified by the promise of silk- 

 worms' eggs and seeds from Mr. Henry Cope, of Umriteur; these 

 though announced as having been forwarded, have not yet 

 arrived, but will be most thankfully received. 



In that part of my letter, dated 16 June last, referring to 

 wild species of silkworms, I solicited your Excellency's aid to 

 obtain certain specified sorts, indigenous more particularly to 

 Bengal and Assam ; we are greatly impressed with the opinion 

 expressed by Captain Hutton as to the value of these neglected 

 races. Captain Hutton's views are so much in accord with the 

 opinions of our most expert and well informed men here, that 

 fortified by his judgment this Society is very anxious to pursue 

 the experiment in this Colony, of growing silk out of doors ; our 

 range of climate seems admirably adapted and inviting to make 

 the essay, and the Council earnestly hopes your Excellency will 

 continue us your powerful assistance, and cause a few hundred 

 cocoons to be forwarded of the species named in my letter, and 

 of any others procurable ; for the Eria, the Tusseh, and the 

 Joree, we are well provided with food, and the moment appears 

 most opportune. 



Should your Excellency, upon consideration of the great present 

 importance of applying the aids of science to the efforts of indus- 

 trial enterprise in such a widely diffused and financially important 

 a matter as the production of silk, determine that your G-overn- 

 ment should undertake experiments, or sanction assistance being 

 rendered towards improving or enlarging the sources of silk pro- 

 duction in India, as urged by the Silk Supply Association of 

 London, this Council will most gladly and freely place at your 

 Excellency's disposal any assistance this Society can render. 

 Situated as we are in a new country, under circumstances entirely 

 different to those of any and every other country, our enterprises 

 not infrequently (rejecting the shackles of old habits) achieves 

 results unlocked for elsewhere ; hence science giving her instruc- 

 tions and aids to industry in this very matter of silk growth pro- 

 duces many crops of silk instead of one in a year, to an immense 



