284 COTTON- WOOL. 



Letter from of cach sort of cottoii in the uncleaned state for 



India Board 



to the Chairs, the purposc of the experiment. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) Ellenborough. 

 To the Chairman and Deputy Chairman 

 of the East-India Company. 



No. 106. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council at Bombay, dated the 

 20th March 1835. 



Letter to Para. 1. With reference to our letter dated 



Bombay, 



20 March 1835. the 4th iustaut, we now acquaint you, that we 

 have it in contemplation to furnish you with 

 a renewed supply of the seeds of the best kinds 

 of cotton which are cultivated in South America, 

 and also to obtain specimens of the machines 

 used in the Brazils for separating the cotton 

 from the seeds ; and it is our intention to transmit 

 a portion of the seeds enveloped in the cotton as 

 gathered from the plant, and one or more of 

 the cleaning machines, to your presidency. 



2. We have requested His Majesty's Consul- 

 general in Egypt, who is also an agent there for 

 the East-India Company, to procure seeds of that 

 particular kind of Egyptian cotton, of which large 

 quantities have within the last few years been 



imported 



