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VII. 



BEING A BRIEF REPORT UPON THE COTTON EXHIBITED AT 

 THE MADRAS EXHIBITION OF 1859. 



BY HOWARD B. MONTGOMERY, M.D., &c, REPORTER ON FIBRES. 



At the request of Mr. "Wheeler, and under the sanction 

 of the Hon'ble Mr. Morehead, President of the Exhibition 

 Committee, I have drawn up the following abstract from the 

 remarks on the Cotton Fibres examined by me as Eeporter 

 on the Fibres exhibited at the Madras Exhibition of 1859. 



The objects I purpose here displaying are : — 

 (1.) The place of production of each specimen ; 

 (2.) The name of the Exhibitor; 



(3.) The quality of each specimen as to colour, strength, 

 lustre, general preparation, and suitability for ex- 

 port to England or elsewhere. 



These appear to be the items which are of the greatest 

 interest in connection with Mr. Wheeler's labours, and I 

 defer to a future opportunity other points of inquiry in con- 

 nection with the general topic of Cotton Cultivation in this 

 Presidency. 



1 may premise that at the Exhibition of 1859 there were 

 42 Exhibitors who furnished 53 specimens of Cotton, as will 

 be seen by the following tabular statements, in the prepar- 

 ation of which I was much assisted by my friend Dr. Hunt- 

 er, Superintendent of the School of Arts. 



It will be observed however that in the following tables 

 there are three specimens of Silk Cotton alluded to which do 

 not properly come under further review at present. They 

 appear only in consequence of their being included in the 

 printed Catalogues of the Exhibition under the heading 

 G-ossypium Species. In them they were numbered 6470 — 

 6497 and 6498. 



