Transcriber’s Notes

Minor punctuation errors (i.e. missing periods) have been silently corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and accented letters have been retained. The use of both c.c. and cc. has also been retained.

Discrepancies between the names in the Table of Contents and List of Plates and on the Chapters and Plates themselves has been retained.

Inconsistencies in spelling have been retained except in the following apparent typographical errors:

Page 34, “wurtzel” changed to “wurzel.” (Mangold wurzel)

Page 62, “demonstated” changed to “demonstrated.” (It was demonstrated that warm milk)

Page 80, “excell” changed to “excel.” (with butter, excel in efficiency)

Page 136, “10·000” changed to “100·00.” (the total of the analysis of American lager beer)

Page 162, “proprotion” changed to “proportion.” (in a maximum proportion of 3 per cent.)

Page 169, “calulated” changed to “calculated.” (calculated by aid of the usual alcohol-metric)

Page 190, “·0012” changed to “0·0012.” (acetic acid, 0·0012 to 0·002)

Page 196, “9·9538” changed to “0·9538.” (in Specific Gravity column of table)

Page 200, “degeee” changed to “degree.” (with a fair degree of accuracy)

Page 211, “presenee” changed to “presence.” (In the presence of nitrites)

Page 275, “years’” changed to “year’s.” (more than one year’s imprisonment)

Page 316, “accordanee” changed to “accordance.” (and produced in accordance with)

Page 321, “carrotin” changed to “carotin.” (butter ... carotin in)

Page 322, “Cocoanut” changed to “Cocoa-nut.” (Cocoa-nut oil in butter)

Page 322, “carrotin” changed to “carotin.” (Colouring agents ... carotin)

Second end paper, “analysists” changed to “analysts.” (one of the most eminent food analysts)

Second end paper, “ANYLITICAL” changed to “ANALYTICAL.” (THE ANALYTICAL SANITARY INSTITUTION.)