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To J, Abbott, Esq., Officiating Secretary to the 

 Board of Trade. 

 Sir: ^^^^ 

 In acknowledo incr the receipt of your letter of 



^ ^ . Resident at 



the 24th instant,* with the orders which accom- Soonamooky. 

 panied, from Government and the Board of Trade, 

 to furnish the Superintendent of the Botanic 

 Garden at Poonah with further supplies of the 

 silk-worm moth eggs, in consequence of those 

 previously sent by me having succeeded so well 

 and proved of so superior a quality/' I beg to 

 observe that the Board appear to have misunder- 

 stood Dr. Lush, to whom no eggs have been sent 

 by me. In his letter of the 25th ultimo to Mr. 

 Chief Secretary Norris, second paragraph, the 

 Doctor states as follows : " My reason for wish- 

 ing for the Bengal kind is, from a comparison I 

 was enabled to make between the produce of the 

 Italian eggs sent by the Honourable the Court of 

 [Directors from St. Helena, and that from the 

 IBengal worm sent by Mr. Colin Shakespear from 

 I Soonamooky. The superiority of the latter renders 

 it unnecessary to continue the breed from the St. 

 Helena stock." 



2. Samples 



* Shewing the superiority of the silk-worms of Bengal, com- 

 pared with those raised from Italian eggs received via Poonah 

 at Rangamatty. 



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