50 DICKSON ON THE RESIN-BOUND FIBRES OF 



is a fraud — a compound from Claussin's and Dickson's 

 Patents, of 1851 and 1854.* 



My views on preparing Flax and hemp, and also the resin 

 bound fibres of India, cannot be better explained than by the 

 following copy of a lecture given by me last spring in Leeds, 

 on the "Fibres of India, and their adaptability to the pur- 

 poses of silks, foreign flax, wool, an4 cotton," before the 

 council of the " Leeds Chamber of Commerce,'' D. Lupton, 

 Esq., J. P., President, in the chair, in the Council Chamber at 

 the Leeds Court House. 



LECTURE. 



Sir, — In accepting the privilege of placing before you and 

 the other gentlemen, members of the Council of the Chamber 

 of Commerce, who represent the great staple trade of Leeds, 

 my productions in fibres from East and West India, through 

 my discovery of inventions, for which I am protected by 

 patents, I feel the subject cannot be done justice to, unless by 

 describing the results from my practical observations on the 

 various plants named in the circulars which you have received; 

 nor can any correct idea of their importance to the manu- 

 facture of yarns be formed, except by a personal explanation 

 from me. Such a course, I have also considered to be 

 necessary, with a view to the extension of the principles of my 

 inventions, to a practical issue, and their general adoption 

 by the trade, rather than to the exclusive advantage of any 

 member thereof; unanimity and co-operation being, in my 

 opinion, indispensable to the success of the enterprise. The 

 results of labour and researches, which have extended over 

 twenty-five years, in the Flax, yarn, and linen manufacturing, 

 and in the bleaching department of this industry, have led me 



* See Patent Office reports, on all Patents, to be had from fourpence to 

 sixpence each. 



