4 4 THE ANALYST. ANALYSTS REPORTS. AT the last meeting of the Salisbury Town Council, Mr. Stoddart, of Bristol, the city analyst, sent in a report stating that twenty-four samples of food had been analysed during the last three months. One sample included under butter was sold as butterine. Mr. Leach : Why should it be sent t o the analyst if sold as butterine ? Superintendent Mathews explained that the butterine was purchased, but not by himself, and it was not sold as butter. MI-. Newton thought that the analyst had been occasioned unnecessary trouble. Nr. Moody remarked that although the article was not sold as butter, it mighti have had something in it that was injurious. Mr. Lea& : If sold as butterine it ought not to have been sent to be analysed. Superintendent Mathews explained that he was ordered to purohase from a certain individual, and that was done, the samples being then sent for analysis, The subject was, after some further conversation, allowed to drop.THE ANALYST. 45 -__I_-- TXIE report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London on analyses made by him during the past year, states that mustard has been found to 'be genuine with the exception of some admixture of wheaten flour, and pickles had been found free from copper. Four sampIes of arrowroot and two of quinine submitted for analyRis were found to be genuine, and the same remark applies to one mmple each of brandy and whiskey. Out of 200 specimens of different articles submitted for examination, there was not one whioh ca3led for the interfereme of the law.