BY R. GREIG SMITH. 683 



has now been reduced to 50 tons. And as the sugar destroyed 

 is transformed into objectionable substances, the removal of 

 which in the process of refining entails a further loss of a similar 

 quantity of pure sugar, there is thus a double loss, the money 

 value of which was about £5,000 three years ago, while now it is 

 .£1,000. I have these figures from Mr. T. U. Walton, the chief 

 chemist to the Colonial Sugar Refining Compan3^ The degrada- 

 tion might have been caused by many agents, but one is probably 

 justified in ascribing over 95 % of it to the action of Bac. Uvani- 

 foTinans. 



