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machines and methods as will determine, with an abundance of green 
s at hand, whether Ramie fibre can now be made available for 
he Foreign Office has communicated the following letter addressed 
to Lord oe Her Majesty's Ambassa dor at Tas, b J 
My Lorp, Paris, October 29th, 1889. 
Wiru reference to Lord Rt 8 Despatch (No. 124 of the 
-— instant), on the subject of t s an cial reports in the 
ter of Rhea fibre-cleaning o at the Eiern Exhibition, 
I ind the honour to enclose copies of the general list of awards which 
has just been made public, to which I have added a list of the special 
awards for decortication of Ramie fibre. 
The [official] reports which have been asked for will probably not 
appear, so I hear from Mr. Berger, till some time next year. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) J. A. Crowe. 
[ Enclosure. ] 
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, 1889. 
Concours de Décortiqueurs pour la Ramie. 
First Prizes. 
P. A. Favier, Société la Ramie Francaise, 14, Rue Saint-Fiacre, Paris 
[for machines for treating Ramie stems 
Norbert de Landtsheer, 2, Place des Batignolles, Paris [for machine 
for treating Ramie stems]. 
Second Prize. 
Ch. Crozat de Fleury et A. Moriceau, Villieurs-le-Bel, Seine-et-Oise 
[for process for the treatment of green Ramie stems in t the fiel d]. 
already given in Mr. Morris’s ee 
M. Favier to Royat GARDENS, Kew. 
Paris, 14, Rue Saint-Fiacre, 
Sir, 11th Nov ember 188 
I nave duly received a copy of the Kew Bulletin of miscel- 
laneous information, which you have been good enough to send me, and 
I beg to thank you for the compliment 
Since the trials upon which you have reported I have res some 
improvements to my m achine, to prevent the ribbons from being en- 
: _ tangled in the rollers, wail an the 23rd October I ied edd further 
