an inch square. Under each of these, as well as under those of catgut, are fliders, made of paper, to prevent the dung of the worms falling on those feeding below them. This is a Description of the Apparatus, as referved in the Society's Repofitory; but, as Mr. Swayne feems to have made fome useful alterations in the manner of constructing the flides fince this was fent, it may be necessary for those who intend to adopt his method of rearing and feeding filkworms, carefully to attend to what that ingenious Gentleman has communicated in the foregoing Papers. THE Society having been favoured with the following Letters from the Right Honourable Lord ROMNEY, their Prefident, and having examined the several famples of the Spinning fent by Mr. GATES, prefented their SILVER MEDAL to Mifs ANN IVES, as a mark of their approbation of her ingenuity and perseverance in bringing the art of Spinning Wool to so great a degree of perfection. A fample of the fine Spinning, together with a Spindle and Whirl fent by Mifs IVES, and a piece of a Shaul, from Mr. HARVEY of Norwich, are referved in the Society's Repofitory. My MY LORD, S As I know you are a great promoter of you arts, fciences, and induftry, I hope will excufe the liberty I take in fending you a fkain of wool, and a pattern of a gown fpun by Mifs Ann Ives, of Spalding. I beg leave to observe to your Lordship, that Miss Ives fpins only for her amusement; was a learner about two years fince, and last winter finished the gown, (the only thing of her fpinning that has been manufactured), a pattern of which was fent to Sir Joseph Banks, who had before called on her, to fee her spin. Sir Jofeph wrote her, for anfwer, the 8th of laft March, that it was the finest he had feen; and that the finest spinning he had heard of, was done by a Mary Powley, of Eaft-Deerham, Norfolk, in 1754, which was one hundred and fifty fkains to a pound, only adding a fixpence |