Note 66 — Chapter VIII · DUCK—GOOSE—PEACOCK—TURKEY—GUINEA-FOWL—CANARY-BIRD—GOLD-FISH—RIVER-BEES—SILK-MOTHS.
Reading edition
Godron, ‘De l’Espèce,’ 1859, tom. i. p. 460. The antiquity of the silkworm in China is given on the authority of Stanislas Julien.