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RAW- SILK. 



No. 10. 



Minute of the Bengal Boai^d of Trade, 2\st March 

 1833, and Letters to the Superintendent of the 

 Company s Botanical Garden, to the Agricultural 

 and Horticultui^al Society, and to several Com- 

 mercial Residents, 



Garden. 



To N. Wallich, Esq,, Superintendent of the Honour- 

 able Company's Botanic Garden, 



Letter to I am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit 



Superintendent , .i i p i i r- • j 



of Botanic to you the annexed copy or a letter, and or its 

 enclosure, from the Secretary to the Bombay 

 Government, under date the 14th ultimo, together 

 with the specimens of mulberry-leaves which 

 accompanied it. 



2. The Board will feel greatly obliged by your 

 favouring them with any observations on the 

 subject of the cultivation of the mulberry-plant in 

 Bengal which it may occur to you to offer, and 

 the communication of which would be likely to 

 prove interesting and useful to Dr. Lush. 



3. You will further oblige the Board, by the 

 early return of the specimens of the mulberry- 

 leaves, herewith forwarded, they being the only 

 set which has yet been furnished, and as they will 

 very probably be required for inspection by the 



other 



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