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Analyst,
Volume 4,
Issue 40,
1879,
Page 138-140
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138 THE ANALYST. NOTES OF THE MONTH. HERE is a lovely little piece of trade journalism. Replying to J.S.B., tlie G~.oco* sayB :-“ We do not recollect reporting any blunder by the analyst you refer to. The analysts are guilty of so many blunders that it is quite impossible to remember any particular case.” Setting aside cases of disputed nomenclature, and wliat really does or does not ZeguEZy constitute an adulteration, we hold, on the contrary, that the really chemical blunders of Public Analysts in their laboratories can be proved to be so few as to be capable of being counted on the fingers of one hand.Considering the thousands of samples wliich lime passed through their laboratories, and the risk of accidents always inherent to chemical analysis, there are very few bodies of men who can so proudly boast of accuracy as the Public Analysts.If their opinions, founded on their analyses, have, in perhaps twenty cases altogether, been reversed in court, it is nothing more than occurs to the most learned of our judges every day. Why does not the Grocer abuse the Vice-Chancellors every time their decisions are reversed on appeal ? Simply because it is not their unpleasant duty to be the machines by means of which the law iiiterferes wit11 monld-be fraudulent tradepa.Him ill@ Eachtynm 1THE ANALYST. 139 The same print falls foul of 11s in n long leader, for publisliing an account of tlie aiialysis of a sample of milk whicli was divided before being sent to Somerset House, aiicl holds L I ~ oar Publication Committee by name, as persons supporting sucli a course of procedare, calculated, it says, to injure tlie tradesman, Tliis is another specimen of the eagerness with which tlie trade journals seize upoii any pretest to vilify us.Is tlie editor of tlie Grocw to liolcl liirnself responsible for the good taste, and to consider his opinions identified with every piece of communicated news he publishes in liis paper ? If this be so, and he will accept such iclentification, we slinll liave much pleasure in diowing him up from tlic news coiitcnts of his owii paper, in a much worse liglit than he can possibly do us.Our Committee of Publication are responsible for the lublication of the Transactions of tlie Society of Public Analysts ; but for any com- iiiunicated reports, correspoiidencc, or notes, they do not assume any responsibility.If the editor of m y journal 01‘ its malingers are to be coiisiclereci to always agree personally with every item of news they publish, tlieii tliere would be an end of j onrnalism altogether. Betting nsidc nll tliis, liotvevcr, tlie case put in the light in which it appears in tlie G)-occr, is a gross perrersion of the fact.An inspector retains his sample for the protection of tlie aiialyst’s reputation, and tlie tradesman retains his for liis own protection. We have made inquiries into the particular case, and find that the court ordered the trnclesn~an’s sample to be sent to Somerset House, and this was done : the inspector’s sample beiiig merely sent as a check against the fraudulent tampering with the tradesman’s sample, which has too often been proved to have occurrecl.Knowing this well, :is tlie Grocer must do, unless on such points its memory is conveniently vacuous, what was wrong in also sending s1 portion of tlie inspector’s sample carefully clivided in presence of witnesses, and retaining some as an additional check on the possible fraud on the analyst’s reputation? But no ! sucli a vile creature is an analyst, that the Gmcer would deny him the sliglitest riglit to protection in any form, and in fact, the sooner the reputation of every chemist in England was blasted the better, for there would tlieii be an cnd to the Act, and the old style of long profits on adulterated articles would return again, and in this Millennium, perhaps, cveii the Grocer would oease from troubling and be at rest. Mr, J.H. Collins has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Helston. Dr. W. Procter has been appointed Public Analyst for tlie City of Yorlr. Dr. C. Meymott Tidy has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Dr. JV. Morgan has been appointed Public Analyst for tlie Borough of Tenby. I-Iertford. BOOKS, &c., RECEIVED.The Chemist and Druggist ; The Brewers’ Guardian ; The British Medical Journal ; The Medical Press ; The Pharniaceutical Journal ; The Sanitary Record ; The Miller ; Journal of Applied Science ; The Boston Journal of Chemistry ; The Dairyman ; The American Dairyman ; The Practitioner ; American New Remedies ; Proceedings of the American Chemical Society ; Le Praticien ; The Inrentors’ Record ; Gas Analyst’s Manual, by I?.W. Hartley ; Commercial Organic Aiialysis, by A. H. Allen.140 THE ANALYBT . RECENT CHEMICAL PATENTS . The following specifications have been published during the past month. and can be obtained from the Great Seal Office. Cursitor Street. Chancery Lane. London . 1878 . NO . 3134 3694 3976 3988 4006 4100 4074 4114 4635 4689 4131 4148 4188 4192 4206 4208 Name of Patentee .C . H . Siemens . . R . W . Wallace .. M.R. Ward . . . . St . G . L . Fox . . . . P . Jensen . . . . F . H . Varley . . . . A . Ariiaud . . . . E . J . Welch . . . . Ditto . . . . . . Ditto . . . . . . C . Norriiigtoii . . J . C . Stevenson .. E . W . Parnell .. 1’. E . Lockwood . . R . P . Higgs . . . . C . W . Siemens .... 4212 C . T . Bright . . . . 4223 J . Johnson and M . Milton . . 4226 T . A . Edison . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4283 J . E . Stokes . . . . . . 4313 A . A . Cochrane . . . . 4315 H . P . Stockman . . . . 4316 J . W . T . Cadett . . . . 4317 F . D . Tilleard . . . . 4338 C . . Harrison . . . . 4341 P . J . Odling . . . . . . 4347 J . S . Wilson .. . . . . 4353 J . Imray . . . . . . 4376 A . Scott and A . McDonald . . 4385 S . F . Van Choate . . . . 4152 S . G . Thomas . . . . 4558 Ditto 4456 F . 1% . Higgiiis . . . . 4462 H.L. Thomas . . . . 446Ct C . Stewart . . . . . . 4473 F . Gye . . . . . . 4502 E . G . Brewer . . . . . . 4517 J . Hardman and G . Wiscliin 4526 J.Young . . . . . . 4549 J . Holloway . . . . . .4553 M . Gray . . . . . . 4559 C . Dmis . . . . . . 4568 J . Mackenzie . . . . . . 4573 G . Zanni . . . . . . 4575 H . W . Tyler . . . . . . 4611 E . Edwards and A . Normandy 4646 J . S . Sellon and W . Ladd . . 4650 T . Clarke and E . Smith . . 4664 F . Ransome . . . . . . 4684 F . Wirth . . . . . . 4690 J . H . Johnson . . . . 4831 E . Packard. Junr., . . . . 1879 . 144 V . Morgan Brown .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . I .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Title of Patent . Prim . Apparatus for Dynaniical Production and Application of Electricity . . . . . . . . . . Manufacture of Sulphate of Ammonia Magneto-Electric Machines . . . . . . . . Electric Lighting Apparatus .. . . . . . . Producing Electricity and Electric Light Indefinitely dividing Electric Currents . . . . Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . Electric Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . Apparatns for producing Electric Light Apparatus for the Manufacture of Alkali Medicinal Conipounds of Extracts of Malt . . . . Electric Lighting. &c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dividing and Distributing Electric Currents for .. . . Apparatus employed in the Manufacture of Sulphnric Acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manufacture of Alkalies . . . . . . . . . . Magneto. or Dynamo Magneto-Electric Machines . . Means and Apparatus for Electric Illumination . . Lighting by Electricity . . . . . . . . . . Manufacture of Gas . . . . . . . . . . Developing Electric Currents and Lighting by Electricity .. . . . . . . . . . . Electric Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . Obtaining and applying Electricity . . . . . . Lainps for Lighting by Electricity Apparatus for producing Electric Light . . . . . . . . Apparatus for producing Light and Electricity . . Electrical Arrangements . . . . . . . . Obtaining Light by Electricity . . . . . . . . Gas Batteries for the production of Electricilr .. Treating Aninioniacal Liquor for the separation of Aniinoiiia Compounds therefrom . . . . . . Treating Residnal Liquids in Sugar Manufacture . . Producing Electric Light. &c . . . . . . . . . Mannfacture of Phosphates and Manures . . . . Ditto ditto . . . . . . Apparatus for producing and subdividing Electric Light . . . . . . . . . . . .Production of Electric Light . . . . . . . . Distributing Electricity for the production of Electric Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . Apparatus for Obtaining Electric Light . . . . Lighting by E lcc trici ty . . . . . . . . . . Production of Anthracene . . . . . . . . Manufacture of Ammonia . . . . . . . . Treatment of Sulphides. &c . . . . . . . . . Manufacturing Carbons for Electrical Purposes .. Mechanism for producing Light and Heat by Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . Electric Light Apparatus . . . . . . . . Apparstus for production of Light by Electricity . . Electric Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . Producing Light. R.c., by Electricity . . . . . . Electric Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . Blanufacture of Sulphuric Acid . . . . . . Manufacture of Cement and Artificial Stonc . . . . Recovering Potassium of the Tartar as Hydrate of . . Electric Regulators. Lamps or Candles . . . . Treating Bones for Manufacture of Manure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Potassa in Manufacture of Tartaric Acid 112 6d. 6d. 6d. Gd . 6d. 2d. 2d. 2d. 2d. 6d. Gd . 4d. 4d. 2d. 8d. 2d. 2d. 11- Gd . 2d. 2d. Gd . 2d. 2d. 2d. Gd . 4d. 4d. 4d. 4d. 6d. 2d. dd . 2d. 6d. 2d. 6d. 4d. 4d. 2d. 2d. 6d. 2.1 . 4d. Gd . 8c1. 4d. 4d . 2d. 4d. 2a. Electric Lighting. Rrc . . . . . . . . . . . 6d .
ISSN:0003-2654
DOI:10.1039/AN8790400138
出版商:RSC
年代:1879
数据来源: RSC
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