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I therefore shall be happy, should you determine to pursue 

 the matter, to afford you, without reserve, any information you 

 may be in need of, and any personal assistance I can render. 

 The Government already possesses several useful varieties of 

 mulberry and other silk-producing plants at the Botanic Gardens, 

 and I would willingly supply other varieties in my possession in 

 which they are deficient. In regard to the silkworms themselves, 

 the case is difficult ; besides myself, there is no one in the Colony, 

 as far as I am aware, qualified to judge of their value. It by no 

 means follows that what succeeds with me will do equally well 

 with inexperienced, and perhaps careless or clumsy hands ; hence, 

 I am not disposed to risk the liability to reproach, or to be held 

 responsible for the possible failures of others. Should you 

 therefore approve of my suggestion, and accept as afree gift from 

 me such stock as may be required, I will, on timely notice, furnish 

 any quantity of acclimatised silkworms or silkworms' eggs of any 

 varieties, races, or species I possess, that may be needful to 

 spread the culture throughout the Colony. I say as a free gift, 

 as this would relieve me to some extent from discomfort in case 

 of an unsatisfactory result. If the worms perished, or did not 

 turn out well, the loss would be mine ; and if, as I think we may 

 reasonably hope, they take a fair hold on the country, I enter- 

 tain no doubt that a liberal Legislature in due time would mark 

 its sense of service rendered by a private individual, and requite 

 my endowment by a grant of land, or in such way as it may deem 

 appropriate. 



I have, &c., 



CHAELES BEADY. 



CHABLES BEADY, ESQ., to DE. G-. BENNETT, HON. SECEETAEY, 

 ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Curl-Curl, Manly, 



1 August, 1870. 

 MY DEAE SIE, 



It is much easier to ask for the information you desire 

 than to give it in a few words. "What I have always considered, 

 and which is now demonstrated to constitute a special advantage 

 to silkworm grain producers in this climate and hemisphere for 

 the supply of European markets, is the faculty we possess of 

 obtaining here, grain of the best annual mulberry silkworms, 

 laid several weeks before the great heats of our summer, in fit 

 state for transport to the northern hemisphere, so as to arrive in. 

 cool and cold northern latitudes at a season admitting a thorough 

 natural hybernation there before the eggs are again subjected to 

 conditions of spring. 



