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[SILK]. Correspondence Relating to Cultivation of Silk.
Sydney, Govt Printer 1870. octavo printed wrapp; 50pp. An unimportant vertical fold. ¶ European silk was in critical condition (“if they experience adverse weather another year the whole may become utterly extinct”) and the arrival of a stock of silkworms and despatches from India has prompted George Bennett to urge official support for the establishment of an industry here. This prints Hutton’s “Remarks on the Cultivation of Silk in India”, a number of shorter papers and memoranda from India as well as local observations by Charles Brady.
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