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THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
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Meneville who has made some interesting and successful
experiments at the Imperial Domain of Vincennes for accli-
matizing new breeds, principally from China and Japan,
Those with which he succeeded best are the ailante, (Bombyx
cynthia) the oak silk-worm, (B. yama-ma'i) the castor-oil worm,
(B. arrindia), and the plum-tree silk-worm (B, secrocopia),
which all thrive well in the North, where the mulberry tree,
on which feeds the usual sort, does not grow. M. Guerin-
Meneville is now trying to introduce another species, the
Bombyx Atlas of the Himalaya mountains, which produces
splendid cocoons and engenders a butterfly measuring no less
than eight inches.across the wings.
Some cotton gathered on the shores of the Mediterranean,
in the moving sands of Pirols, does great credit to the inge-
nuity and perseverance of the grower, Mr. Regis, being, we
believe, the first ever produced in France. We also notice
some new textile materials, one extracted from the mulberry
tree by Cabanis, another from clover root by Caminade.
We should like to know, however, under what pretence they
have classed among raw materials, an assortment of curtains
and other fabrics made of so-called Japanese felt, but in reality
of stamped gummed paper, which might go to the wash, but
would certainly never return.
The curriers and leather-manufacturers occupy the next
room, and we remark that they have nearly all received gold
medals, or ^decorations ; the well-known axiom, " there is
nothing like leather," seems evidently to have guided the Jurors
in their awards.
We now come to the most, or we might say the only
brilliant part of this somewhat dull gallery, the chemical pro-
'3
Meneville who has made some interesting and successful
experiments at the Imperial Domain of Vincennes for accli-
matizing new breeds, principally from China and Japan,
Those with which he succeeded best are the ailante, (Bombyx
cynthia) the oak silk-worm, (B. yama-ma'i) the castor-oil worm,
(B. arrindia), and the plum-tree silk-worm (B, secrocopia),
which all thrive well in the North, where the mulberry tree,
on which feeds the usual sort, does not grow. M. Guerin-
Meneville is now trying to introduce another species, the
Bombyx Atlas of the Himalaya mountains, which produces
splendid cocoons and engenders a butterfly measuring no less
than eight inches.across the wings.
Some cotton gathered on the shores of the Mediterranean,
in the moving sands of Pirols, does great credit to the inge-
nuity and perseverance of the grower, Mr. Regis, being, we
believe, the first ever produced in France. We also notice
some new textile materials, one extracted from the mulberry
tree by Cabanis, another from clover root by Caminade.
We should like to know, however, under what pretence they
have classed among raw materials, an assortment of curtains
and other fabrics made of so-called Japanese felt, but in reality
of stamped gummed paper, which might go to the wash, but
would certainly never return.
The curriers and leather-manufacturers occupy the next
room, and we remark that they have nearly all received gold
medals, or ^decorations ; the well-known axiom, " there is
nothing like leather," seems evidently to have guided the Jurors
in their awards.
We now come to the most, or we might say the only
brilliant part of this somewhat dull gallery, the chemical pro-