ANALYSTS’ REPORTS, The quarterly report of Mr. W. W. Stoddart, Analyst for the City of Bristol, states that he has examined sixty-four samples of food, &c. Three of the samples were of 80 bad a quality that adulteration240 TElE ANALYST, was suspected. One aample of butter submitted by a private individual waa genuine, but of bad quality and with a rancid smell. Five other samples were good.A sample of tea submitted by a private individual was good. Mr. W. F. Lowe, Analyst for Flintshire, reports that during the last quarter he examined 21 semples of which 7 samples were adulterated, viz.:“ out of 9 samples of spirits, and 2 out of 6 samples of milk-a large pementage, which ebows that Nr. Lowe’s recent appointment as analyst was made none too soon. We hope that his next report will show both an increase in the number of samples exmined and a decrease in the pementage of adulteration.Mr. West Knights, Public Analyst for Cambridge, in his report for the quarter ending September 30th, stated that twelve samples of food and drugs had been submitted to him for analysis, four of which he found to be adulterated. Out of four samples of buns three were genuine, and one was adulterated with alumin the proportion of 182 grains of alum per four pounds.The vendor, on being summoned, proved the use of a certain baking powder (which was found to contain 15 per cent. of bttrnt or dried alum) and was fined 1s. and costs. Out of four samples of baking powder, two, of the same make as the above, were adulterated with 15 per cent.of alum. Three samples of drugs, viz., spirit of nitrous sether, grey powder, and blue pill were found to be genuine. One sample of milk, submitted by a private purchaser, was found to be skimmed milk, diluted with 18 per cent. of water. No proceedings were taken against the vendor. ADULTERATED Hops.-The Transactions of the hfedical Society of Upsala contain an acoount of an ingenious fraud in the hop trade, said to be practised on 8 considerable wale in that oity.Hops which have already been used for making extracts, or for brewing in the ordinary way, are damped with a tincture of absinthe or wormwood, freed from spirit by distillation, re-dried, and then placed in the market as a genuine article with or without much bloom. Owing to their increased bitterness they often command a better price than unadulterated hops.ANSWERS TO COBRESPONDENTS.-T. Woods.-You will find a note “On the Determination of Alcohol in Ether and Chloroform,” by Mr. Allen, in THE ANALYST, Vol. II., p. 97. RECENT CHEMICAL PATENTS. The following rjpecifications have been published during the past month, and can be obtained from the Great Seal Office, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, London, 1879.Nsme of Patentee. NO. 967 R. Weare . . . . . . . . 1012 A. L. Coke . . . . . . . . 1266 J. H. Johnson . . . . . . . . 1306 J. Allmann . . . . . . . . 1313 8. (3. Thomas . . . . . . . . 1389 H. E. Newton . . . . . . . . 1387 A. W. Lake . . . . . . . . 1410 H. J. Haddan . . . . . . . . 1444 W. L. Wise . . . . . . . . 1484 M. Gill . .. . . . . . . . 1609 3.B. Johnson . . . . . . . . 1577 F. T. Reade . . . . . . . . Title of Patent. Prim Manufacture of Charcoals . . . . . . . . 2d. Electric Lighting . . . . . . . . . . 2d. Manufacture of Saccharate of Lime.. . . . . 4d. Separating Sulphur from Alkaline Solutions . . 2d. Manufacture of Bessemer Steel from Phosphoretic Pig Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . 4d. Manufacture of Sulpho Cyanides and Ferro Cyanides 6d.Dynamo and Magneto Electric Machines . . . . 4d. Purifying Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . 4d. Producing Preparations of Alumina . . . . . . 4d. Evaporating I3accBa;rine and other Liquids . . . . 6d. Manufactme of Aluminium . . . . . . . . 4d. Eliminating Phosphorus from Phosphoretio Pig Iron 2d. BOOKS, &c,, RECEIVED. The Chemist and Druggist ; The Brewers’ Guardian‘; The British Medical Journal ; The Medical Press ; The Pharmaceutical Journal ; The Sanitary Record ; The Miller ; Journal of Applied Science ; The Boston Journal of Chemistry ; The Provisioner ; The American Dairyman ; The Practitioner ; American New Remedies ; Proceedings of the American Chemical Society ; Le Praticien ; The Inventors’ Record ; New York Public Health ; Phildelphia Printers’ Circular ; The Scientific Amkcan ; The American Traveller.