Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, 1871, Vol. 5
By last Mail I sent you the result of my communications with the Secretary of the Silk Supply Association in London; I am waiting anxiously for further communications from them, relative to your Report and the samples of Mauritius Silk which accompanied it. As you are ever energetic in advancing science in your colony, I have thought I might assist you a little on this point of Sericiculture thinking from the universal failure of the Silk supply that it might benefit that colony, which is in twinned with my dearest recollectionsjto add this industry to its other resources, as being easily and cheaply carried out by female labour. Mr. Dickson's pamphlet which I sent you out by last Mail would clearly lay before you every particular re lative to the Silk supply market, of the great and greater scar city of the true Silk owing to the nearly universal disease (1) among the true Bombya: Mow} Species, except in South America and parts of Japan. This has led to many scientific men seek ing for other Silk Spinning insects to assist in replacing to some degree the delicate B. Mori, and in Hungary and other suitable parts, there are large Farms for breeding all the fo reign varieties as well as the B. Blow. So that the progeny are harder and more acclimatised than those from Cocoons brought direct from China or Japan.
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