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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Report oF CoMMITTEE ON Dr. Taytor’s Discovery.—From 
the number of letters that have reached us bearing on this sub- 
"ject since our reference to it in our last issue, it is evident that 
a very large number are interested in this report, and, at the 
same time, are greatly disappointed to learn that the committee 
failed to do their work. It is certainly annoying that a whole 
committee should be charged with inactivity when some of its 
members, to our personal knowledge, have done such faithful, 
hard work. Mr. C. M. Vorce, of Cleveland, wrote us such a 
clear statement of the whole affair in a private letter, that we 
immediately wrote to obtain permission to use the facts he gave 
for the public good. Having obtained such permission we are 
prepared to tell just what was done and just where the report 
was last seen. Mr. Vorce assures us that the work was faith- 
fully done by Mr. Atwood, Dr. Fell and himself. They sent 
frequent reports of progress to all other members of the com- 
mittee, but none were received either by himself or Dr. Fell 
from the two western members. <A Report was finally prepared 
by Mr. Atwood, signed by Dr. Fell, and forwarded to him. He 
attached his signature and sent the matter forward to Dr. Cur 
‘tis, of Chicago, since which time not a word has been heard 
from it. Dr. Detmers says that he has never received any Re- 
port from Dr. Curtis. The proceedings were held back some 
time for this Report, until it was thought best not to hope any 
longer. It is proper to state that in a private letter Dr. Detmers 
says his own work fully sustains Dr. Taylor’s claims. 
Dr. Tayior vs. Pror. Weser.—We are in receipt of a some- 
what extended Bulletin from the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 
Station, on “ Testing Butter;’’ the same being a reply to Dr. 
Taylor, on his methods of examining butter and fats. After 
giving his theory of the formation of Dr. Taylor’s “ butter crys- 
tals” he says that there is no practical value whatever to the 
tests. All that is necessary to produce these “crystals” is the 
presence of a small amount of salt, or “a speck of any other 
solid matter in any fat.” Dr. Taylor has a reply to this in the 
present number. Mr. Vorce says that Prof. Weber is certainly 
off the track somewhere, for he has followed Prof. Weber’s ex- 
