30—WOOL FROM SAMUEL MARSDEN'S SHEEP AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY MERINOS

Abstract

An account is given of measurements of fibre characteristics of wool from merino and longwool sheep bred in Australia in the early nineteenth century. The results are compared with those obtained on wool from several Spanish merinos that were reared in France in the eighteenth century. Although it was possible to make only a few tests, the results are considered to provide further evidence of the remarkable constancy of fibre diameter in merino wool over a long period.