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APPENDIX VII, 



BEING A BRIEF REPORT UPON THE COTTON EXHIBITED AT 



THE MADRAS EXHIBITION OF 1859. 

 BY HOWARD B- MONTGOMERY, M. D., &c. 



Reporter on Fibres. 



At the request of Mr. Wheeler, and under the sanction of the 

 Hon'ble Mr. Morehead, President of the Exhibition Committee, I 

 have drawn up the following abstract from the remarks on the Cot- 

 ton Fibres examined by me as Reporter on the Fibres exhibited at 

 the Madras Exhibition of 1859. 



The objects I purpose here displaying are : 

 (1.) The place of production of each specimen ; 

 (2.) The name of the Exhibitor ; 



(3.) The quality of each specimen as to colour, strength, 

 lustre, general preparation and suitability for ex- 

 port to England or elsewhere ; 



These appear to be the items which are of the greatest interest in 

 connection with Mr. Wheeler's labours, and I defer to a future op- 

 portunity other points of enquiry in connection with the general 

 topic of Cotton Cultivation in this Presidency. 



I may premise that at the Exhibition of 1859 there were 42 

 Exhibitors who furnished 53 specimens of Cotton as will be seen by 

 the following tabular statements in the preparation of which I was 

 much assisted by my friend Dr. Hunter, Superintendent of the 

 School of Arts. 



It will be observed however that in the following tables there are 

 three specimens of Silk Cotton alluded to which do not properly 

 come under further review at present* They appear only in conse- 

 quence of their being included in the printed Catalogues of the 

 Exhibition under the heading Gossypium Species, In them they 

 were numbered 6470-6497 and 6498. 



