143 
Berar Local Committee. 
370, 371. Gins (2); for cleaning cotton. Berar. 
37.9a-379c. Cotton Dokras and half-pressed and 
full-pressed cotton bales, from Berar. 
381-446. Weeds found in the cotton fields; 60 
specimens. 
166-217. Seed-cotton (30 samples) and cleaned cotton 
(31 samples). 
141-168. Cotton plants; dried and mounted; 18 
specimens. 
Nagpore Committee. 
372. “ Churka.” Cotton gin. Nagpore. 
159-165. Bolls of Coconada, Dharwar, Sheegaum, 
Jurree, Old Khandeish, Hingunghat, ßunnee, and 
Nankin cotton plants. Preserved in spirits. 
Madras Committee. 
373. “Churka.” Madras. 
Government of Bombay. 
375. Foot-roller. Dharwar. 
Used in cleaning or separating nbre from the 
seed of almost all the cotton known in the Eng- 
lish market as Coompta. The foot-roller is used 
by a woman, who sits on the stool and rolls the 
iron rod quickly backwards and forwards with 
her feet on the stone. The seed-cotton is placed 
in front of the rod, which catches the fibre under 
it and separates it from the seed, which remains 
in front. 
376. Foot-roller. Indapoor, Poona Colleetorate. 
Used in the Poona and Sholapoor districts for 
cleaning cotton. 
377- Hand “ Churka.” Dharwar. 
Full size. One-handle “ churka ” for ginning 
cotton. Only used in some of the Southern 
parts of the Dharwar district for cleaning the 
indigenous or Coompta cotton. 
378. Hand “ Churka.” Khandeish. 
Scale of one half. Usedthroughout Khandeish, 
&c. In Malligaum, of the Nassick Colleetorate, 
a one-handle or “ ex-huthee ” “ churka ” is used, 
which, however, differs from the Dharwar kind 
in having an iron and a wooden roller. 
H. E. Sir W. R. Seymour Fitzgerald, G.C.S.I. 
545. Dharwar Saw-gin ; model. Dharwar. 
Used for ginning American cotton in Dhar 
war. 
379. Pinjaras’ Machine. Dharwar. 
Used for “ bowing ” or preparing cotton for 
stuffing beds, cushions, &c., and also for making 
“ hungees ” or skeins of cotton-wool for spinning 
purposes. The cotton-wool prepared by this 
machine is made into “ hungees ” by rolling a 
portion in the hand on the thigh. 
H. H.the Rao of Kutch G.C.S.I. 
374. Cotton-cleaning machine. Kutch. 
Yarns and Twists. 
Government of Bombay. 
447. Collection showing the processes and manufac- 
tures of the JafEer Alli Spinning and Weaving Com 
pany at Surat. 
R. Hyde Cheetham, Greaves Cotton Company, 
Bombay. 
448. Specimens showing the process and manufac- 
tures of the Moraijee Goculdas Spinning and 
Weaving Company’s Mill at Parell. 
1. Cotton-mixing; the cotton in its first 
stage. 
2. Cotton cleaned through the opener; Ist 
process. 
3. Lap cleaned through the scutcher; 2nd 
process. 
4. Web from the carding engine. 
5. Sliver from the carding engine; 3rd pro 
cess. 
6. First sliver from drawing-frame. 
7. Second sliver from drawing-frame, 
8. Third sliver from drawing-frame. 
9. Roller from drawing-frame. 
10. Three bobbins from slubbing-frame. 
11. Three bobhins from intermediate frame. 
12. Two bobbins from roving-frame. 
13. Six bobbins from throstle yarn finished : 
No. 30’s, usually called water twist and used for 
warp. 
14. Cops from mule No. 20’s ; yarns. 
15. Cops from mule No. 26’s; yarns. 
16. Cops from mule No. 30’s; yarns. 
17- Mule yarn in bundles. 
18. Throtle yarn, in bundles. 
19. Yarn in knots. 
Government of Bombay. 
471. “ Hungees ” or cotton skeins. Cotton wool 
made into “hungees” by rolling between the 
palms of the hands, or on the thigh. Dharwar. 
472-483. Samples of yarns or native twists from 
Sind, Dharwar, Khandeish, and Ahmedabad. 
Colleetor of Etawah, N.W. Provinces. 
484-485. Specimens of spun yarns. 
486-487- Specimens of yarns. Manufactured by the 
Eigin Mills Company, Cawnpore, N.W. Provinces. 
Rangoon Local Committee, Burmah. 
488-491. Native twists spun in the Toungoo district 
and at Mingyan. Sample of European twist dyed 
in the Bassein district. 
Models, Photographs, ko. of Machines for 
Spinning and Weaving. 
Berar Local Committee. 
449, 455. Implement for winding yarn, and spinning 
wheel. 
Government of the Punjab. 
450, 462, 464. Models of spinning-wheel, spindle, 
and brush, from Delhi. 
H.H. the Maharajah of Gwalior, G.C.S.I. 
463. Model of tape-weaving machine. Gwalior. 
Madras Committee. 
457, 461. Spinning-wheel and model of loom, from 
Madras. 
H. E. Sir W. R. Seymour Fitzgerald, G.C.S.I. 
453, 454, 458, 460. Spinning-wheels from Dharwar, 
Khandeish, and Indapoor. 
No. 458. “ Rhat.” Spinning-wheel. Dharwar. 
Used for spinning cotton into thread, and 
for winding thread on spools for the shuttle. 
Full size.