Silkworms. 411 
.. The monthly Bulletin is full of results ob- 
s. We owe to it partly the introduction 
all European governme) ts 
tained by its influence%al 
bers of the Society residing in those regions. These animals have al- 
ready reproduced ; they afford milk and butter of good quality, and 
yarn from the wool of the Yaks which this Society had sent 
them, and they say that the manufacturers of carpets would obtain 
beautiful results from the product, it having high lustre and uniting the 
pose , 
the Industrial Society of Mulhouse, and M. Schlumberger, Spinner, have 
betans make out of t of the yak €@ cloth which sheds water. 
This animal has been domesticated in Asia, and there is every prospect 
of success here. It is important to reme at the dumestication of 
: hand, and with its abundant means and extended resources, the experi- 
ment will be faithfully tried. ei at : 
Besides the above, ns Society, on the report of Dr. Richard, Vice 
President, has undertaken to promote the multiplication and training of 
the Hemione (a species of the genus Horse), which is already domesti- 
cated at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, under the care of I. G. 
St. Hilaire, President of the Society. It has been trained without trouble 
for the saddle and traces; it carries its rider without “ mauvaise vol- 
| onté.” The female is easily managed. The animal is very intelligent, 
| but also very sensitive, and it is necessary to treat him with — 
as harshness renders him restive and ugly. Dr. ichard has made the 
| domestication of animals his study through life = his specialty is Zoo- 
| techny of the mammifers, and his a is of the highest value 
| in all these questions of acclimation and domestication. 
Silkwwo q - the museardine has made so great one 
among the mulberry silkworm, there has been an attempt to introduce 
— Sine 
gr the | r, and which will also eat 
_ the leaves of different species of walnut; the Rolpphemnss a large At- 
Ss re ema srs a 
j _ ere Er + si is v3 
‘ se litle roca = ne of the species is regarded 
as desi on the score of economy. ~ 
"<9 his Journal, January, 1852. 
