6 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



analysis and to the testing of methods recommended b}^ others. The 

 methods adopted })}' the station become official in the sense that they 

 must be employed by all the other chemical stations. The stall' of the 

 station has elaborated and published new methods for the analysis of 

 milk, wine, whisky, meat, red pepper (paprika), soils, feeding- stuffs, 

 fertilizers, petroleum, lubricating- oils, crude carbolic acid, caoutchouc, 

 dextrin, and other materials. Numerous analyses of agricultural 

 plants and feeding stuffs cultivated in Hungary, and of factory refuse 

 materials which can be employed as feeding stuffs have been made and 

 the results published. The station has, by a large number of analy- 

 ses, ascertained the composition of the musts and wines of Hungary. 

 It has examined the lime contents of the soil in many localities, and by 

 a method elaborated by itself it has examined a large part of the sandy 

 areas of Hungary which are suited to the cultivation of grapes, and 

 established the fact of the immunity of these areas from the phyl- 

 loxera. It has also devoted nuich attention to researches relating to 

 physiological chemistrj^; a number of articles have been published on 

 embrvo-chemistry, on the determination of nucleins and the acid 

 which they contain, on the chemistry of yeast cells, the formation of 

 gastric juice, the secretion of urine, iodized starch, the so-called animal 

 caoutchouc, etc. 



Chemical Station at Alteiiburg. — This is the oldest station in Hun- 

 gary, having begun its activit}" in 1873, and is next in importance to 

 the Institute of Chemistry at Budapest. It is connected with the 

 Agricultural Acadeni}^ at Altenburg. The staff' of the station consists 

 of a director (now Prof. T. Kosutany) and three assistants. In the 

 course of its existence it has made a thorough study of the chemistry 

 of wine and of the methods of wine examination; has carried out a 

 series of investigations relating to yeasts and their influence on fer- 

 mentation ; it has made contributions on the question of the formation 

 of vegetable albumen, studying among other things the influences 

 which affect the biological functions of plants. It has also conducted 

 extensive and thorough researches with reference to the development 

 and chemical composition of tol)acco, and has published valuable works 

 on the chemistry of certain agricultural plants, on oil cakes, and on 

 the process employed in Hungary in the production of oils. Much 

 attention has been given to the examination of fertilizers and soils. 



Chemical Station at Kaschau. — This station was established in 1884 

 as a department of the Agricultural Institute at Kaschau. The scien- 

 tific work of the station is mainly devoted to investigations in its 

 experimental distillery, installed for that purpose. The staff' consists 

 of a chief and one assistant. 



Chemical Station at Keszthely. — This was founded in 1889. and is 

 immediatelv connected with the agricultural institute of that town. 



