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literature of the temperature at which foods aud beverages are taken iuto the 

 body aud reports the results of a large number of observations. 



He states that, contrary to other observers, he has found that beverages are 

 taken in restaurants as well as at home at a temperature of from 50 to 60° C. 

 or higher. Adults, owing to the fact that they are accustomed to taking hot 

 drinks, note temperature differences less acutely than children. According to 

 his observation, children will seldom drink anything with a temperature over 

 50°, excepting in families where the adults use hot drinks. He believes that 

 neither the climate nor the time of the year Is responsible for any increase in 

 the temperature at which beverages are taken. 



Annual report of the food and drug commissioner to the governor of the 

 State of Missouri, 1913, F. H. Fricke (Ann. Rfit. Food ami Drug Coinr. Mis- 

 souri, 1913, pp. 68). — A progress report is given of the examination of milk and 

 miscellaneous food products, drug products, and other work under the state 

 pure-food law. Out of a total number of 1,006 samples of food and drugs ex- 

 amined. 458 did not meet the requirements. 



[Food inspection work] (Quart. Rpt. Dairy and Food Comr. Va., 1913, 

 iicpt.-'Nov., pp. 1-^5, 5^-68). — Data are given regarding the examination of a 

 large number of samples of miscellaneous foodstuffs and beverages and the 

 inspection of l);ikeries and other places wliere food is prepared and sold. 



Report of the Royal Commission on Uniform Standards for Foods and 

 Drugs in the States of the Commonwealth of Australia; together with evi- 

 dence and appendixes, J. A. Thompson (Sydney: Govt., 1913, pp. LXXII-\- 

 282). — This report brings together in detail the evidence of traders and manu- 

 facturers affected by the pure-food law, which was taken and collected with a 

 view to uniform legislation for the purpose of making regulations in the sev- 

 eral States of the Commonwealth of Australia. In the form of appendixes this 

 information is classified aud summarized. 



Report of the Royal Commission on Uniform Standards for Poods and 

 Drugs in the States of the Commonwealth of Australia, J. W. Gbeen (Brit. 

 Food Jour., 15 {1913), No. 178, pp. 182-186).— Au exhaustive digest of the report 

 noted above. 



Physical and chemical tests for the housewife, Sadie B. Vanderbilt ( Teach- 

 ers Col. [N. Y.], Bui. 16, 4. ser. (1913), pp. 16).— A number of tests are de- 

 scribed which deal with gas and liquid fuels, water, food materials, food adul- 

 teration, soap, and soap powders. 



Report of the committee on teachers' salaries and cost of living [National 

 Education Association] (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1913, pp. XX-\-328). — This ex- 

 tended investigation has to do with the increased cost of living, the economic 

 and social conditions of teachers in representative cities, and salary schedules, 

 tenure, and pensions. The following quotation shows the attitude of the com- 

 mittee toward the general question : 



" While the 15 per cent rise of prices between 1896 aud 1903 maye have 

 seemed of minor importance to the earlier committee of the National Education 

 Association on salaries, tenure, and pensions, the uibsequent rise has been so 

 large and rapid that, in the opinion of the present committee, it can not be left 

 out of sight for an instant in any discussion or settlement of the question of 

 teachers' salaries." 



The nutrition of the people, M. Rubner (Trans. 15. Internat. Cong. Hyg. 

 and Demogr. Washington, 1 {1913), pp. 385-407) .—This discussion of the food 

 of the masses is approached, the author states, from a somewhat different 

 standpoint from that of his earlier treatise on a similar subject (E. S. R., 20, 

 p. 662). Nutritive requirements, changes in food conditions and in dietary 

 habits, the merits of different types of diet, relation of food to housing and 



