DR. LUSH’S VALUABLE PAPER ON COTTON. 
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PARKS and PASSAGB MONEY. 
From Miles. 
Actual tra- 
Amount paid for 
London to 
Antwerp 
220 t 
veiling. 
conveyance. 
£ 8. d. 
4 4 0 Steam packet 30 hrs. 
and half. 
Brussels 
30 f 
5 0 Steam caniage 1 hour 
Liege 
64 
1 “... 
2 0 Diligence. 
Aix la Chapelle i 
75 
2 “ 
.. .. 2 
14 6 Voiiure. 
cologne S 
Coblentz ...... . . 
63 
1 
I 
2 0 Steam vessel on the Rhine. 
Mayence 
60 
1 „ 
.. . 1 
1 6 do. do. 
Manheim 
Heidelberg 
27 i 
10$ 
1 
0 
13 0 do. do. 
8 0 Voiture. 
Stutgard 
70 
1 
,. .. • i 
13 0 Diligence. 
Innsprtick 
203 
4 „ .. . 
.... 6 
2 6 Voiture. 
Verona .. 
191 
4 
.. . 5 
3 6 do. 
Modena, chang-'l 
ed Voiiure&cross- 1 
ed the Appeniiies 
ISO 
5 
S 8 do. 
by the Betuna 1 
pass to Florence. J 
Leghorn 
60 
1 
2 
3 0 do. 
Malta 
500 
11 „ 
17 
0 0 Brigaiitino. 
Alexandria 
700 
13 „ 
.. .. 18 
0 0 Schooner. 
Aife Canal, joins # 
the Nile % 
40 
1 
0 0 Arab boat 
Boulac, port of/ 
Cairo ^ 
lOO 
3 „ ...g... 
0 0 Insurance company’s 
boat. 
Suez, crossed the / 
desert j 
80 
3 
0 0 Camels and Donkies. 
Jedda 
540 
17 „ 
6 0 Aral) boat. 
Mocha 
480 
11 
s 8 Arab ship. 
Bombay 
1800 
20 
. • ; . . 60 
0 0 Surat ship. 
6491 99 
EXPENSES AT INNS, &C. 
Expenses at Inns in Europe 
Do. at Malta, supplies for Egypt, 
Do. do. Beverly’s Hotel r 
Do. Alexandria Mrs. Hume’s hotel and some supplies, and at Catro, Mrsi 
hotel and other expenses in Egypt 
Do. Suez, Tor, Yaniboo 
Do. 
Do. Servants from A'exandria to Jedda 
Do. Hodeidaand Mocha 
Seivant from Jedda to Bombay 
£162 14 0 
.. .. 25 0 0 
.. .. 10 0 0 
.. .. 797 
Hall’s 
. 30 0 0 
.. .. 2 0 0 
.... 5 0 0 
.. .. 4 0 0 
3 15 0 
3 0 0 
£89 4 7 
COTTON. 
Dr. Lush has communicated a valuable pa“ 
per., on the cultivation and preparation of 
Cotton in the distritcts under the Bombay pre- 
sidency. 
1 he determination of the species and varieties 
of Cotton, of the genus Gossypium, to speak in 
correct hotatiical language is no easy problem. Dr. 
T. Hamilton Buchanan, who believed he bad seen 
all the kinds then grown in Itidia including four 
or five generally allowed by authors to be specifically 
all growing in the same field and pro- 
duced from the same seed admitted only three 
species. One species with white fibre and white or 
green seed : — examples-common Indian cotton, 
Ameiican upland, &c. 
A second species with white fibre and black 
seed — Bourbon, &c. 
A third species with yellow fibre.— \iz. Nankin 
cotton- 
This simplification however startling to those 
who have seen the seemingly well drilled ranks 
of species in standard botanical works, is very 
Total for two persons— £251 18 7 
near the truth. Following nearly the same piin- 
ciple. Dr. Lush would reject the Nankin as not 
specifically distinct from the common Indian and 
American, and acknowledge the Pernambuco or 
kidney cotton as a decided species. M. De Can. 
dolle?.* observes that— After giving the genetic 
character of Gossypium, he adds “ n. B. species 
omnes incertce ex characteribus mancis stability. 
Genus monographiae accuratse et ex vivo elaboraiae 
maxime egere !” True;— but if the drawings and 
‘descriptions are to be made from cultivated kinds, 
the existing confusion will be increased. It is 
only the description of those found in an undoubt- 
edly wild slate, that can be of service to the bo- 
tanist, and the benefit to the cultivator could but 
be small. It is remaikable that M. De Candolle 
marks the Gossypium acuminatum of Boxburgh 
which is no other than the kidney or Pernam- 
buco cotton, as a doubtful species. Now it is not 
only clearly described by Boxburgh hut is the most 
distinct species and the most unvarying in charac- 
• De Condo lie. Prodromus syst. naturalis regni 
veget pars 1pp. 456. 
