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1882—Mr. M. Bowman—Succeeding Mr. Fraser—Halifax. 
1882—Mr. Wm. Saunders—London, Ont. 
1884—J. E. Wright, Jr.—Winnipeg, Man. 
1884—Dr. F. X. Valade—Ottawa, Ont. 
1884—Mr. H. Sugden Evans—Chief Analyst, Ottawa. 
1886—Mr. Thomas MacFarlane—Succeeding Mr. Evans, Ottawa. 
1886—Mr. Harrison—London, Ont., sueceeding Dr. Wm. Saunders, 
who was appointed to the Directorship of the Central 
Experimental Farm at Ottawa in this year. 
1889—Mr. E. B. Kenrick—Suceeeding Mr. J. E. Wright, Winnipeg, 
Man. 
1898—Dr. C. J. Fagan—Victoria, B. C. 
1901—Mr. Tourchot—St. Hyacinthe, P. Q. 
- 1902—Dr. J. T. Donald—Succeeding Dr. Edwards—Montreal. 
1907—Dr. A. MeGill—Succeeding Mr. Macfarlane—Ottawa. 
The Act also provided for the appointment of Inspectors of food 
and drugs, whose duty it was to procure samples of these articles within 
the limits of territory assigned to each, and to submit such samples to 
the local analyst, for examination and report. At present we have 
sixteen such officers in Canada; and a recommendation has been made 
recently, with a view to the redistribution of inspectoral districts, so 
that more effective inspection may be secured, at less cost for expenses 
of collection. 
In accordance with the practice of other countries, where food 
inspection was a new departure, and where knowledge of the chemistry 
of food stuffs was in its infancy, it was considered best to limit the 
number of samples examined, and make the researches as complete 
as possible. This course was deliberately followed after the appoint- 
ment of a chief analyst, in 1885; and it is believed that the work issued 
in Bulletin form from this laboratory has been helpful in enabling 
standards of quality to be fixed. 
Within recent years a new departure has been made. Much 
larger numbers of samples have been examined, and the analyst has 
sought to determine the fact of genuineness or falsification in the most 
direct way and with least expenditure of time and labor. 
The extensive knowledge of food materials which has been accu- 
mulated during the past 20 years, has made it possible to detect and 
determine most forms of adulteration with great precision and by 
comparatively simple methods. The examination of large numbers 
of samples has many very evident advantages. It becomes possible 
to make the number of samples examined bear some reasonable propor- 
tion to the number sold, and hence to arrive at some real knowledge of 
the extent of adulteration. Perhaps of greater importance still is the 
Proc. 1911. 6. 
