Reports by the juries. Class IV. Animal and vegetable substances chiefly used in manufactures, as implements, or for ornaments / Richard Owen, Edward Solly, reporters.

  • Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892.
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[1851]
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Credit: Reports by the juries. Class IV. Animal and vegetable substances chiefly used in manufactures, as implements, or for ornaments / Richard Owen, Edward Solly, reporters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from Bromberg, here exhibited, are remarkable for the fineness and regularity of the staple, and illustrate favourably the advance of the improvement of wool in the Prussian districts of the Middle Vistula: the Jury deem them to merit the award of the Prize Medal. No. 24. E. Lubbert.—The fleeces transmitted by this exhibitor from Zwey- brodt, near Breslau, are very remarkable for those qualities which, like the Austrian-Silesian wools, adapt them for the fabrication of the finest cloths, and the Jury award to Mr. Lubbert the Prize Medal. No. 30. G. L. Nordmann.—The fleeces from Liszkowy, near Mowraelaw, are also fine specimens of Prussian wools, remarkable for the great regularity in the staple, and meriting the award of the Prize Medal to M. Nordmann. Nos. 45 and 46. Oberburggraf Von Brunneck.—The fleeces of a ram and a ewe from a merino flock at Bellschwitz, and the specimens of wool indiscriminately taken from a merino flock at Rosenberg, though rather inferior in quality to the finest Silesian wools, manifest a fineness, softness, and elasticity of fibre and a regularity of staple which, in the opinion of the Jury, merits an award to the exhibitor of the Prize Medal. The Bellschwitz flock was procured by the Oberburggraf in Spain in 1814, and afterwards improved by additions of the finest Saxon and Silesian races in 1820 and 1824. No. 27. M. OcKEL, for the Royal Administration of Frankenfelde.—The fleeces of a ram and of ewes shorn in the spring of 1850, and the samples of wools from the flocks kept at Wrietzen on the Oder, under the above Administration, manifest qualities which the Jury have considered to entitle the Administration to the award of the Prize Medal. Of other exhibitors of wools in the Zollverein, No. 32, Baron Eckardstein, on account of the regularity of the staple in two examples of wool in fleeces; No. 33, Count Von Schwerin, for the fleeces of a ram and ewe of the Saxon breed, remarkable for their fine qualities as “ combing woolNo. 355, Flocken- HAUS and Co.; No. 42, Baron Von Luttwitz ; No. 47, R Lehmann, for fleeces of fine raw wool; No. 23, A P. Thaer, for the richness of the staple and fineness of the hair; No. 369, MM. Peill and Co., of Duren No. 433, M. A. Von Saucken ; No. 280, S. M. V. Rothschild, for four fleeces of fine merino wool, from a flock of 15,000 head at Schillersdorf; No. 25, J. Von Lipski, for a ram’s fleece from the owner’s flock at Ludomy; No. 26, — Hey, for the fleeces of wool from the flock of the Electoral race, under the personal superintendence of the exhibitor at the Royal Domain of Hainsburg, Saxony; and the fleeces exhibited by the Royal Remounting Horse-Depot, No. 22, on account of the weight of the wool and the length and resistance of the fibre, which adapt it for combing, are severally deemed by the .1 ury to be worthy of Honourable Mention. United States of America. Mr. CocKERILL.—The wool transmitted by this exhibitor from Northville is well got up, and exhibits, like the preceding specimens, a qiiality of fibre, indicative of care and skill in the development and improvement of the fleece, which calls for the award of the Prize Medal. * This firm’s name is inserted in the Award List of Class XII. 2 X VOL. I.