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(K.) moting the art, both on your side of India and 



Letter to 



Superintendent 



^^crrden^ coDclusion, I am happy to say that I 



have secured a considerable quantity of the eggs 

 supposed to be annuals, wherewith in due season 

 to propagate the breed, and complete the experi- 

 ment by feeding on the doppia, 



I have, &c., 

 (Signed) Colin Shakespear, 

 Resident. 



Soonamooky Residency, 

 Bengal, 

 16th April 1833. 



P. S. Copy of your letter, now under reply, was 

 immediately submitted, through the usual channel, 

 for the information of Government, in continuation 

 of our correspondence. 



Letter from 

 Superintendent 



To C. Shakespear, Esq,, Commercial Resident, 

 Soonamooky. 



I have to apologize for not having duly 

 °G?rden'^ acknowledged the receipt of your despatch of the 

 16th April, accompanied by the specimens and 

 statements, but as I was daily looking for the 

 arrival of the Pottery ghye apparatus by sea, I 

 deferred any further observations in expectation 

 of its arrival ; a circumstance which I now regret, 

 as it has led you to think the communication was 

 not received. 



2. As 



