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MR. C. O^NEILL^S EXPERIMENTS AND 



This sample is 0*0175 below the preceding, and in it 

 occurs the shortest hair of which measurement is recorded ; 

 but, without that, the run of the hairs is less than in the 

 other sample of Dhallerah all through. 



Length of 20 hairs of Surat (Comptah, middling) cotton. 

 Sample supplied by G. Mosley, Esq., March 28, 1863. 

 Price 15 c?. 



No. 



in. 



No. 



in. 



No. 



in. 



No. 



in. 



4 



.. ro5 



6 . 



• 095 



5 • 



. 0*90 



9 • 



.. 0-85 



18 



..1-05 



8 . 



• o"95 



7 • 



. . 0*90 



14 • 



.. o-8o 



20 



.. 1-05 



12 . 



• o'95 



10 . 



.. 0*90 



1 1 . 



.. 075 



16 



.. I'OO 



^3 . 



. 0-95 



15 • 



.. 0-90 



I . 



.. 070 



19 



.. I'OO 



2 . 



. 0*90 



3 • 



. 0-85 



17 • 



. . 070 



Mean length = 0*905 inch. 



Longest fibre = o'i45 inch longer than mean. 



Shortest fibre = 0*205 ^^ch. shorter than mean. 



This is decidedly in every measurement the shortest 

 staple cotton of those examined, but pretty regular in the 

 lengths of the hairs, and for the lengths not a great differ- 

 ence in the extremes. 



In the following Table I have brought together the 

 lengths of the longest hairs in each sample, the mean 

 length, and the length of the shortest hair, and have 

 arranged them in the order of the greatest mean lengths. 



