294 Quarterly Rej)ort of the Chemical Committee for December ^ 



The result of the Meeting referred to in the foregoing com- 

 munication is contained in the following letter, and accompany- 

 ing resolutions : — 



" Hull Pure Linseed-cake Association, Hull, 

 Robert Blyth, Hon. Secretary. 



" February 25th, 1874. 

 " Sir, — Your letter of the 20th of February has been placed before the Com- 

 mittee of the Hull Pure Liaseed-cake Association at a meeting held this daj% 

 and at foot we beg to hand you copy of the resolutions passed in reference 

 thereto. 



" Your registered letters dated January 1st, and 20th, appear to have been 

 received by ... . and signed for by one of their clerks, and that they, on or 

 about the 25th of January, sent the same in a parcel to .... of the firm of 

 .... an ex-Secretary of the Association, but acting until the appointment of 

 his successor, who, for reasons best known to himself, returned the same to 

 you, without acquainting any Member of tlie Association of his having done 

 so, or of the existence of any such documents. 



" Until the appearance of the report in the ' Mark Lane Express,' no 

 Member of the Committee was in any way acquainted with the matter 

 referred to. 



" We remain, your obedient Servants, 

 " H. H. Aybe, Chairman. 

 " H. W. Chambers, Vice-Chairman. 

 " Egbert Blyth, Hon. Secretary (jyro tern,). 

 "H. M. Jenkins, Esq., 



" Secretary' of the Eoyal Agricultural Society." 



COPY OF KESOLUTIONS. 

 "Resolved : — 



" * That the letter dated 20th of Februar}', received from the Secretary 

 of the Eoyal Agricultural Society, addressed to the Vice-Chairman, be acknow- 

 ledged, and that on the former's compliance with the latter's request, con- 

 tained in his letter of the 19th inst. — viz., to send the correspondence referred 

 to, the Committee will furnish the Secretary of the Eoyal Agricultural Society 

 with the list of members of this Association if still required.' " 



" Eesolved : — 



" ' That the letter embodying the foregoing Eesolution be signed by 

 the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Secretary.' " 



The Secretary replied as follows : — 



" 12, Hanover Square, Febraary 26th, 1874. 



" Sir, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a letter da,ted the 25th inst., 

 headed 'Hull Pure Linseed-cake Association,' and signed by yourself as 

 Chairman, Mr. H. W. Chambers as Vice-Chairman, and Mr. Robert Blyth as 

 Hon. Secretary {pro tern.) of a body apparently using that title. 



" This communication refers to my letter of February 20th, addressed to 

 Mr. H. W. Chambers, which was a reply to his request for my letters dated 

 the 1st and 20th of January, addressed to the Chairman or Secretary of the 

 Hull Pure Linseed-cake Association ; that is to say, to his request for my 

 attempted corres^wndence with an institution adopting precisely the same 

 name as that at the head of the letter which I received this morning, but 

 using a distinctive badge or emblem which is not stamped on the latter. 



" My letters of the 1st and 20th of January had, however, been returned to 

 me with a statement, dated from the same address as the letter received this 

 morning, to the effect that there was.no Secretary of the Association, it was 



