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CITY & GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE

Technical College, Finsbury,

Leonard Street, City Road,

London. E. C.

June 17^th 1901

My dear Wallace,

I enclose promised list of synthetical products. You can curtail it if it is too long & I will read the proof for you if you would like me to do so.

I hope you reached home safely & not too much [2] done up & that the slides have also reached you safely.

If you criticize the introduction of synthetical products in lieu of natural products from a politico — economical point of view please remember that if a nature colouring — matter is made artificially it simply means that the land is released from that particular kind of crop & is therefore available for other purposes. It has been suggested for instance that if indigo culture in India were killed the land could [3] be used for sugar cane.

Kind regards | Yours very sincerely, | R. Meldola [signature]¹