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942). — Laboratory studios with ;i iiiiniber of preservatives are reported, includ- 

 ing foriuic acid, benzoic acid, aumioniuni tluorid, i),vrocatechin, abrastol, and 

 hexa-niethyl-tctraiuin. 



Report of the department of food and drugs, State board of health, to 

 March, 1909, H. E. Barnard (Mo. Bid. Ind. Bd. Jlralth, 11 {W09), Yo. 2, 

 pp. 15-22). — Of the 355 samples of milk and milk products, butter, beverages, 

 sausages, extracts, canned goods, etc., examined 108 were found to be illegal. 

 Information is also given regarding the drugs examined and the prosecutions 

 brought under the food and drug law. 



Official inspections, C. D. Woods (Maine Sta. Off. /hs/j. 1, 2, 3, //, 5, 6, pp. 8 

 each). — These i)ublications contain data regarding the examination of foods, 

 drugs, and fertilizers under the State law, data regarding standards, advice 

 to manufacturers and dealers, and similar matter, and in some cases the re- 

 sults of examinations. The materials considered include sausage, maple prod- 

 ucts, ice cream and ice cream substitutes, soda water, drugs, flavoring ex- 

 tracts, pickles, catsup, oysters, salt fish, rice, vinegar, and fertilizers. 



Report of the First International Congress for the Suppression of Adul- 

 teration of Foods and Drugs (Compt. Rend. Trav. Cong. Internat. Rcpr. 

 Fraudes Aliment, et Pharm. Geneve, 1 (1908), pp. 290). — A list of officers and 

 delegates, rules and regulations, minutes of meetings, standards recommended, 

 and other similar data are included in this report of the International Con- 

 gress for the Suppression of Adulteration of Foods and Drugs, held at Geneva, 

 September 8-12, 1908. 



Summary of official enactments and documents relating to public hygiene 

 (Rec. Actes Off. et Doc. Hyg. Pub., Trav. Cons. tiup. Hyg. Pub. France, 31 

 {1901), pp. 123, pi. 1, figs. 19). — The material included in this volume is sum- 

 marized under three general heads, namely. Legislation and Administration, 

 The Work of the Superior Consul of Public Hygiene in France, and Supple- 

 mentary Documents. 



Notices of judgment (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Notices of Judgment 50, pp. 2; 

 51-53, pp. 1; 5.',-55, pp. .',; 56-51, pp. //; 58-63, pp. 12; 6^-65, pp. //).— The sub- 

 jects included are the adulteration of coffee, misbranding of bottled beer, 

 canned corn, a drug, coffee, lemon extract, canned apples and vinegar, and 

 adulteration and misbranding of oats, lithia water and buckwheat flour. 



Decision of the Attorney-General in regard to the legality of the Referee 

 Board (U. S. Dept. Agr., Food Insp. Decision 101, pp. 6). — The decision of 

 Attorney-General Wickersham in regard to the legality of the referee board 

 appointed to give advice upon questions arising from the enforcement of the 

 Food aod Drugs Act is quoted in full. It sustains the legality of the board. 



Drug legislation in the United States, L. F. Kebleb ( U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Chem. Bui. 98, rev., pt. 1, pp. SJ/S). — In this revision of an earlier bulletin 

 (E. S. R., IS, p. 421) the summaries of Federal and State enactments regard- 

 ing drugs have been brought up to July 15, 1908, the present edition being neces- 

 sitated by the large amount of new legislation along this line which has been 

 enacted since the bulletin was first i)ublished. The material is arranged alpha- 

 betically by States. 



The fireless cooker, Ellen A. Huntington {BuL Univ. Wis., No. 211, pp. 38, 

 figs. 10). — The author summarizes historical and other data regarding fireless 

 cookers and reports the results of investigations on the use of different mate- 

 rials in the construction of such cookers and the effects of amounts and density 

 of matetials upon the conservation of heat. 



From studies of the materials of which the fireless cooker was made, the 

 packing material, and the effects of the density of the food cooked, the author 

 concludes that "so far as the retention of heat was involved, (1) the outside 



