A memoir on the origin, cultivation and uses of cotton from the earliest ages to the present time : with especial reference to the Sea-Island cotton plant, including the improvements in its cultivation and the preparation of the wool, &c., in Georgia and South-Carolina : read before the Agricultural Society of St. John's Colleton, November 13th, 1843, and the State Agricultural Society of South-Carolina, December 6th, 1843, and by both societies ordered to by published /