Volume 2, issue number 5 and issue number 19 of the journal produced by the British Cotton Industry Research Association (later the Shirley Institute). Issue 5 is a paper entitled 'Two Simple Methods for Measuring the Mean Staple Length of Cotton: Description of Apparatus' by G.A.R. Foster. Issue 19 is comprised of a paper entitled 'Two Simple Methods for Measuring the Mean Staple Length of Cotton', with the author's name given as George Alfred Rea Foster.

Both issues are stamped as being received in October 1927 by A.B. & Co. Ltd.