PART V 



Eminent men of genial feeling — The Rheea fibre Company in the hands of 

 Jews the real cause of failure — The late Dr. Royle's work on the fibre plants 

 of India — The value of Bombay hemp before and after being prepared by 

 Dickson's patent machines when sold in Liverpool— The first yarns and cloth 

 made from Rheea fibre, exhibited by the Society of Arts, in May 1860, 

 (Thomas Bazley, Esq., M.P., in the chair,) to assist Dr. Watson to lecture on 

 the value of'Tndian fibres — Estimates of a factory to prepare the fibres, cost of 

 machinery, labour and profit by working — Observations on the patent machines 

 for preparing green unsteeped Fkx or hemp as it comes from the field, and the 

 produce certified by letters and references — Yarns first spun on Flax machinery 

 by Dickson's patent process of preparing fibres in Leeds — Yarns and cloth spun 

 and woven on worsted machinery and also on cotton machinery from Rheea 

 fibre, Elax and hemp, all cottonized, and in a book sent by the noble Earl of 

 Derby to the Manchester Relief Committee— Rope yarns spun at Chatham 

 Dockyards twenty per cent, stronger by Dickson's patent machines, than any 

 ever spun on the establishment, and cause of it being kept back since 

 10th January, 1860 — Rev. George Rowe, of York, on Indian fibres — The 

 supplies of Rheea and similar fibres from Jamaica — Sir W. Hooker and 

 Mr. N. Wilson on the certainly of a supply — Notice of piracy of Dickson's 

 patent liquid to spinners — The acts of bubble companies to catch the patentee — 

 Colonel Abbott's reports on the expenses and profit of cultivating Rheea fibre 

 in India before he left London in 1863 — Value of Rheea fibre by Dickson's 

 patent inventions compared with Messrs. Marshall's value in Leeds, by letters 

 of Dr. E. Royle — The value of green unretted Elax and hemp and also New 

 Zealand Elax prepared by Dickson's patent process, when shown and ordered 

 by seven Leeds Elax-spinning firms — Value of the waste for paper — Cottonized 

 Elax, Ireland's hope, with the aid of the power-loom recommended by his 

 excellency (Lord Wodehouse) the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the second day 

 after his arrival — The patentee, Dickson, being the first to introduce power- 

 looms into Ireland in 1838 and correspondence with his excellency on the 

 subject — The Standard Newspaper v. The Elax movements in Ireland. 



THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PRINCIPAL FIBRES TO 

 WHICH THE PATENTED PROCESSES ARE 

 APPLICABLE. 



The wild rheea of the East and West Indies, China grass, 

 pine-apple, plantain, aloe, and the Himalaya hemp, jute, 



