112 THE ANALYST, MISCELLANEOUS. QUALIFICATIONS OF PUBLIC ANALYST. THE following extracts are taken from an Order and accompanying Circular, dated March 7,1900, issued by the Local Government Board to those local authorities who are required by law to appoint a Public Analyst : “ Every person appointed on or after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred, to the office of Public Analyst shall furnish such proof as we may deem sufficient of his competent skill in, and knowledge of, (a) analytical chemistry, ( b ) therapeutics, and (c) microscopy. “ Such proof shall in every case comprise documentary evidence that such person holds the requisite certificate, diploma, license, or document conferring the qualification, or attesting his possession of the skill or knowledge to which the same applies, and granted or issued by any person or body of persons for the time being recognised by us as conipetent to confer such qualification, or to test such skill or knowledge.Such proof shall also comprise such further evidence as we may in any particular case require. ‘‘ All such documentary evidence as is hereinbefore mentioned shall be furnished by such person to the local authority by whom he is appointed, and shall be transmitted to us by the local authority when applying for our approval of the appointment. “Provided that nothing in this regulation contained shall, in the case of any person who was appointed to the office of Public Analyst with our approval, between the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and the date hereof, or of any person who is so appointed for the first time after such last- mentioned date, apply upon any subsequent appointment of such person to the said office.” (‘ AS regards the reference in the Order to a person or body of persons whom the Board may from time to time recognise as competent to confer the requisite qualifica- tion, or t o test the skill or knowledge of which proof is required by the Order, the Board may state that it would accord with their existing practice to accept as sufficient documentary evidence of the requisite qualification under the Acts the Diploma of Fellowship or Associateship of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Certificate grantcd by the Institute after an examination, conducted by them on lines approved by the Board, in therapeutics, pharmacology, and microscopy.” ‘‘ The possession of a diploma as a registered medical practitioner is accepted as sufficient proof of competency in microscopy and therapeutics, and it would only be necessary that a medical practitioner appointed as a public analyst should furnish evidence of competent skill in, and knowledge of, analytical chemistry.” ‘( Evidence of skill or knowledge on the part of a candidate in respect of any of the qualifications referred to as requisite, which is tendered by an individual, must be from a person recognised as entitled to speak with authority as to proficiency in -the parbicular qualification in question.”