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endorse all that Dr. Hassal and others have put forth on the subject, 

 yet our experience tends to estahHsh the fact that food is adulterated 

 to a very great extent, and that in an inverse ratio to the professions 

 made ; thus, where we have heard the greatest outcry against adultera- 

 tions, and at those establishments where extracts, &c., from the reports of 

 "learned professors " on the analysis of their articles are conspicuously 

 placarded, we may expect to find sophistication in full play ; but it will 

 be generally found that at the unpretending, steady-going establishments 

 genume articles may be obtained, and not only do these remarks apply 

 to food, but to commodities of all kinds. We do not wish, however, to 

 lay all the blame of this system of fraud, if it may be so called, to 

 the dealer, wholesale or retail ; the public, we think, is equally to 

 blame, for as long as the public insists on cheaj), or rather low priced, 

 commodities, and so long as it is satisfied with what it gets at the price, 

 "SO long will the excessive competition that exists compel the dealer to 

 sell such an article as he can profit by. 



THIRTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Royal Institution, April 98th, 1856. 



T. C. ARCHER, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Sir John S. P. Salusbury was elected an Ordinary Member. 



Mr. Driffield's resignation was received. 



Mr. Byerley exhibited the Leptocephalus Morrisii, or Anglesea Morris, 

 an exceedingly rare fish, taken here at low water ; also the Lernea 

 bronchialis, a parasite from the gills of the cod fish. 



The Rev. H. H. Higgins communicated some observations upon the 

 habits of the Tipula, showing the use of the long legs in the process of 

 depositing the ova. 



Mr. Marrat exhibited the first number (1805) of the " Liverpool 

 Cause List." 



Mr. T. C. Archer exhibited a curious gall from Asia, known there as 

 the apple of Sodom ; 'also flowers of the clove tree, expanded and in 



