A critical review in Nature of H. B. Heylin's 'The Cotton Weaver's Handbook' (London: Charles Griffin, 1908). The reviewer finds the book hasty and repetitive, with many factual and typographical errors, poor machinery illustrations, and inadequate chapters on the power loom and yarn preparation. The chapter on weaves is called the best part. The review also criticizes the costing and yarn-count sections, the blank pages and the reprinted examination questions.

A short note from Nature (25 November 1886) on the decline of the Indian silk industry. It reports the findings of Mr. Wood Mason, Curator of the Indian Museum, who examined living cocoons from various parts of India and found most of them diseased. The disease appears to be the same as the one that devastated French silkworm nurseries from 1849 to 1865 and was later eradicated from Europe through Pasteur's work.

A one-page review in Nature of Vernon L. Kellogg's 1908 Stanford publication on heredity in silkworms. It sets Kellogg's breeding experiments beside those of Coutagne and Toyama, and reports that larval characters follow Mendelian inheritance while cocoon characters show many exceptions. The reviewer criticizes the lack of numerical data and probable-error calculations, using the non-adhesive egg character of the Bagdad race as an example.

A brief news note from Nature (21 April 1887) reporting that machinery for reeling silk from cocoons was set up in Washington by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It mentions heavy public demand for the Department's Bulletin on Silkworm Culture, which required seven or eight editions, and record requests for silkworm eggs. The note anticipates large quantities of American-grown silk reaching the market that year.

A short note in Nature on wild silk-producing insects of West Africa. It describes how cocoons of Anaphe infracta and A. venata are boiled, spun and mixed with native cotton yarn to weave "Sanyan" cloth in Nigerian towns such as Ibadan and Ilorin. It also covers the white "Gambari" (Haussa) silk from northern Nigeria, the author's experiment producing white cocoons by confining larvae in the dark, and notes on larval food plants and the classification of other Anaphe species.

A short note in Nature summarizing a letter by T. F. Peppe in the Journal of the Society of Arts on cultivating India's wild silks, especially tussur. It covers the abundant host plants and labour in the jungles, the difficulty of obtaining seed-cocoons from the wild, and the uncertain number of broods per year.