RAW- SILK. 



107 



No. 4. 



Letter from the Secretary to the Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society to the Board of Trade, dated 

 the ISth October 1832. 



To F. Macnaghten, Esq., Secretary to the Board 

 of Trade. 



Sir: 



I have had the honour to receive vour letter of ^p".^"* f'"^"'. 



^ Horticultural 



the 15th current with its enclosure, ofFerins* to the Society to 



' ^ Board of Trade, 



Committee of the Agricultural and Horticultural is Oct. i832. 

 Society appointed for the superintendence of the 

 experimental farm at Akra, a portion of the silk- 

 worm's eggs lately received from Mr. Lush, Super- 

 intendent of the Honourable Company's Botanic 

 Garden at Dapooree, together with some cuttings 

 of the Italian white mulberry plant. 



In reply, I beg you will inform the Board that 

 the Akra Committee will, with pleasure, now 

 receive such portion of the eggs as can be spared ; 

 and they request that you will intimate their wish 

 to have cuttings of the white mulberry, so soon 

 as they can be sent round from Bombay. 



