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at Kew, were forwarded to the Death’s Fibre Machine Company, 147, 
Leadenhall Street, E.C. A sample of the fibre obtained by passing the 
leaves through the Death machine is forwarded herewith (marked A); 
while, for purposes of comparison, a sample of the ordinary Bombay 
Aloe fibre, as it comes into the London market direct from India, is also 
enclosed (marked B 
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about 27,0002., or more than three times its present value. It appears 
possible, therefore, without any extension of the present Agave plants 
in Bombay, to inerease to a very appreciable extent the returns on the 
shipment of Aloe fibre from that Presidency. 
6. Mr. Thiselton Dyer has little doubt that the facts herein stated 
will prove of considerable interest to the Government of India, and they 
deserve to be widely known amongst those concerned in the Bombay 
Aloe fibre industry. 
I am, &c. 
J. A, Godley, Esq., C.B. (Signed) D. Morris. 
[Excrosvnx. | 
Messrs. IDE AND CHRISTIE to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
Dear Str, 72, Mark Lane, E.C., February 6, 1890. 
We have your favour of the 4th instant with samples of fib 
extracted by Death’s process from the leaves of Agave vivipara. This 
is an excellent fibre, of fair strength, fine colour (which, however, may 
change somewhat under continued exposure to the air), and were it 
three times as long would be worth 30/. per ton to-day in London ; if 
twice as long ; and, as it is, it may be valued at 25/. 
. The ordinary * Bombay Aloe” of commerce presents a very different 
appearance to your specimen, as, perhaps, samples in your Museum may 
show. Its value to-day is, good 12/., common 5l. per ton. 
: Yours, &c. 
D. Morris, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. (Signed) IDE AND CHRISTIE. 
CXXXVI.—COMMERCIAL VALUE OF LOXA BARK. 
(Cinchona officinalis, L.) 
'The note on the eommercial value of cinchona bark in the Bulletin 
for October 1889 was the subject of the following remarks in the 
journal of the Pharmaceutical Society for November 2, 1889, p. 343 :— 
“In a note in the Kew Bulletin (October, p. 247), relating to 
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