RAW-SILK. 



of experiments under the immediate supervision Report, 

 of the Board, the comparative merits of the several 

 inventions. 



The Court's approbation of the establishment of 

 the experimental filature was conveyed in the 

 letter to the Bengal Government of the 12th Sep- 

 tember ] 832, and it was suggested that the ground 

 belonging to this filature, might serve as a nursery 

 for preserving the Italian mulberry-plants and 

 silk-worms sent from Bombay, and to rear cocoons 

 for experiments. 



The result of the trials made at the filature in 

 question, led the Government to adopt the recom- 

 mendation of the Board of Trade, that the pottery 

 ghye (furnace and basin) invented by Mr. Colin 

 Shakespear, the Commercial Resident at Gonatea, 

 should be the standard one to be substituted on 

 all occasions of renewing basins, and should be 

 forthwith constructed in place of those previously 

 in use in all factories, where there might appear 

 advantage in carrying the alteration into imme- 

 diate effect. Descriptions of the new inventions, 

 and of the experiments made at the Howrah fila- 

 ture, will be' found in the statements in Ap- 

 pendix L. 



In October 1833 further experiments at this 

 ii. (d) filature 



