292 Quartcrhj Report of the Chemical Committee for December, 



The Secretary replied as follows :■ — 



" 12, Hanover Square, W., 



" February 20th, 1874. 



" Sir, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated yesterday in 

 reference to extracts from a correspondence relating to the Hull Pure Linseed- 

 cake Association, which was read by the Chairman of the Chemical Committee 

 at the meeting of the Council of this Society on the 4th inst., and published 

 ■with the other minutes of that meeting in the ' Mark Lane Express ' of 

 the 9th. 



" You inform me that none of the letters thus refeiTcd to reached either the 

 Chairman of the Association, yourself as the Vice-Chairman, or, so far as you 

 know, any official of the Association ; and you request me to send you the 

 letters (as they have been returned to me) prior to a meeting of the Com- 

 mittee of the Association, which you propose to summon for the purjjose of 

 considering them. 



" In reply to your letter, I beg to state that I have twice attempted to com- 

 municate directly with the Association by means of registered letters ad- 

 dressed to its Chairman or Secretary, and that I have been informed that at 

 present there is no Secretary, nor, it is believed, Chairman of the Association, 

 and even that it is a fine point whether the Association itself really does or does 

 not exist. 



" These statements differ so greatly from those contained in your letter of 

 yesterday, that I must request you to furnish me wdth a list of the Members 

 of the alleged Association and the names of the Chairman, the Members of 

 the Committee, and other officers ; also that you will inform me when and 

 how the Committee and officers were appointed, and by what authority you 

 write on behalf of the Association. 



" I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 



" H. M. Jenkins, Secretary. 



"H. W. Chambers, Esq., Hull." 



At the same time the Secretary addressed the following letter 

 to the firm who had given him the information published by 

 the Committee in their last Quarterly Report : — 



" 12, Hanover Square, W., 



" February 20th, 1874. 



" Gentlemen, — With reference to our recent correspondence relating to the 

 Hull Pure Linseed-cake Association, and to the sale by yourselves and another 

 Member of that Association of inferior linseed-cake as ' Pure ' linseed-cake to 

 two members of this Society, notwithstanding that the Members of the Hull 

 Pure Linseed-cake Association had resolved that ' no other cakes than pure 

 linseed-cake shall be sold or described as linseed-cake,' I beg to call yom* 

 attention to the enclosed copy of a letter* which I have received this 

 morning. 



" In your letter to me of January 26th you informed me that ' at present 

 there is no Secretary, or, we believe. Chairman, of the Hull Pure Linseed- 

 cake Association, or we would hand over the whole of the correspondence ; ' 

 and in your letter of the 28th of January you state that, in your opinion, ' it 

 is a fine point if the Association really does or does not exist.' 



" On the other hand, the writer of the letter, of which I enclose you a copy, 

 states that the Chairman is absent from home, signs himself as Vice-Chairman, 

 and asserts his right to act on behalf of the Association by stating his inten- 

 tion of calling a meeting of the Committee at an early date. 



* Namely, that dated February 19th, given on p. 291, and signed " H. W. 

 Chambers, Vice-Chairman of the Hull Pure Liuseed-cake Association." 



