KAW-SILK. 



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No. 3. 



Letters f rom the Bengal Board of Trade, dated the 

 I5th October 1832, to the Secretary to the Agri- 

 cultural and lloi^ticultural Societij. 



Ordered, That the following letter be written 

 to the Secretary to the Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



7o C. H. Robinson, Esq. 

 Sir: 



(K.) 



I have been instructed by the Board of Trade Letter from 

 to forward to you the annexed copy of a letter 



toHorticultural 



received from the Superintendent of the Honorable 15 oct??832. 

 Conapany's Botanic Garden at Dapooree, and to 

 request that you will be good enough to ascertain 

 from the Committee of the Horticultural Society, 

 whether it w^ould be acceptable to them to receive 

 a portion of the silk-worms' eggs referred to by 

 Mr. Lush, with a view to endeavour to rear them 

 at the Society's farm at Akra. 



I am further desired to inquire, whether it would 

 be considered desirable to require the transmission 

 to this presidency of cuttings of the varieties of 

 the Italian white mulberry plant alluded to in the 



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