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MEMORANDUM.
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12. In India I have to recommend that a set be placed in each of the following places,
viz. : Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Kurrachee, the North-western Provinces, the Punjab,
and lastly in Berar.
13. With respect to the three last-named divisions either Allahabad, Mirzapore, or
Agra in the North-western Provinces, Umritsur or Lahore in the Punjab, and Oomra-
wutte or Nagpore in Berar, will probably be found the most suitable, but it may be
left to the respective Governments of the divisions in question to decide on the exact
locality.
14. Regarding the conditions on which the gift should be presented,—the first should
be that due provision be made for its permanent protection, and that freedom of access
be afforded to all properly recommended and practically interested persons.
15. The sets should be assigned in trust to the chief commercial authorities in the
selected places, for the use not only of those connected with the district in which they
are deposited, but of non-residents also, who can show a practical interest in Textile
manufactures. The proposed plan of sending seven of the sets to India, diminishes the
number of commercial centres in this country which will receive a copy, and it therefore
becomes the more necessary that those which do get one should be required to make
it easy of access to agents, merchants, and manufacturers who reside in those which
do not.
16. This should apply also to the foreign manufacturer or agent who may wish to
consult the collection. The interests of India require that nothing should be done
to prevent her from receiving the benefits which may arise from competition between
different sources of supply, or to interfere with the extension to other countries of the
knowledge of the manufactures and products she is prepared to sell.
17- It is admitted to be for the mutual advantage of India and of this kingdom
that the most intimate commercial relations should exist between them. Nothing
will conduce to this more certainly than a full and correct knowledge of what
India can produce and what her people want. The means of acquiring this knowledge
these volumes furnish, so far at least as Textile Manufactures are concerned. The twenty
sets may be regarded as twenty Industrial or Trade Museums, placed here and there in the
two countries, and it is but a reasonable expectation that they will be extensively studied
and consulted by the manufacturers of both. The result of this will assuredly be an
increased interchange of commodities. The British manufacturer will learn what goods
are likely to prove saleable in India, and what he can produce more cheaply than the
native can ; while the British merchant may find among some of the delicate fabrics of
India, or of those which are elaborately decorated, articles which it will be profitable to
import, because they can be made more cheaply in the East. In addition to this, in
consequence of each set being as much as possible an exact counterpart of all the others,
these Museums will facilitate trade operations in the way already described, and will
enable merchants to give, and manufacturers to execute, orders more readily and
more accurately than they otherwise could.
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12. In India I have to recommend that a set be placed in each of the following places,
viz. : Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Kurrachee, the North-western Provinces, the Punjab,
and lastly in Berar.
13. With respect to the three last-named divisions either Allahabad, Mirzapore, or
Agra in the North-western Provinces, Umritsur or Lahore in the Punjab, and Oomra-
wutte or Nagpore in Berar, will probably be found the most suitable, but it may be
left to the respective Governments of the divisions in question to decide on the exact
locality.
14. Regarding the conditions on which the gift should be presented,—the first should
be that due provision be made for its permanent protection, and that freedom of access
be afforded to all properly recommended and practically interested persons.
15. The sets should be assigned in trust to the chief commercial authorities in the
selected places, for the use not only of those connected with the district in which they
are deposited, but of non-residents also, who can show a practical interest in Textile
manufactures. The proposed plan of sending seven of the sets to India, diminishes the
number of commercial centres in this country which will receive a copy, and it therefore
becomes the more necessary that those which do get one should be required to make
it easy of access to agents, merchants, and manufacturers who reside in those which
do not.
16. This should apply also to the foreign manufacturer or agent who may wish to
consult the collection. The interests of India require that nothing should be done
to prevent her from receiving the benefits which may arise from competition between
different sources of supply, or to interfere with the extension to other countries of the
knowledge of the manufactures and products she is prepared to sell.
17- It is admitted to be for the mutual advantage of India and of this kingdom
that the most intimate commercial relations should exist between them. Nothing
will conduce to this more certainly than a full and correct knowledge of what
India can produce and what her people want. The means of acquiring this knowledge
these volumes furnish, so far at least as Textile Manufactures are concerned. The twenty
sets may be regarded as twenty Industrial or Trade Museums, placed here and there in the
two countries, and it is but a reasonable expectation that they will be extensively studied
and consulted by the manufacturers of both. The result of this will assuredly be an
increased interchange of commodities. The British manufacturer will learn what goods
are likely to prove saleable in India, and what he can produce more cheaply than the
native can ; while the British merchant may find among some of the delicate fabrics of
India, or of those which are elaborately decorated, articles which it will be profitable to
import, because they can be made more cheaply in the East. In addition to this, in
consequence of each set being as much as possible an exact counterpart of all the others,
these Museums will facilitate trade operations in the way already described, and will
enable merchants to give, and manufacturers to execute, orders more readily and
more accurately than they otherwise could.