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Ordinary Meeting, January 9th, 1877. 
E. W. Binney, F.B.S,, F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The President said that he had received from Mr. B. H. 
Green, of this city, more papers of the late Mr. George 
Walker, one of the original members of this Society, relating 
to the early importations of cotton into England. 
99.000 B. & P. West India, supposed 1601bs. eacb. 
13,400 Bales Turkey, ,, 2601bs. ,, 
112,400 Packages of Cotton imported into Great Britain during the 
- - ■ - year 1790. 
Of wbicb it is supposed the Manufactories have used : 
lbs. 
80.000 W. India at IGOlbs. nett each, 12,800,000 (w. 15Jd. = £827,000 
12.000 Turkey at 2601bs. ,, 3,120,000 @ 10|d. = £136,500 
92,000 B. & P. used. 15,920,000 = £963,500 
15,920,000 lbs. @ 6s. 8d. = £5,310,000 — Sterling when made into Cloth and 
finished for sale. 
£5,310,000 
963,500 
£4,346,500 Wages and profit. 
The profit realised by the manufacture in those days 
appears to have been very considerable, and no cotton is 
described as coming from the United States. 
Another table of the importations into Liverpool in the 
year 1812 and the six preceding years Mr. Walker gives as 
from Mr. Aspinwall, and is as follows. 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil. Soc. — Vol* XVI. — No. 7. — Session 1876*7. 
