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cane sugar, most extravagant quantities of water are directed 
to be used, so that for a certain quantity of milk solids the 
unfortunate infant, bottle-fed (often only owing to the 
selfishness of the mother), may have to drink seven times 
-more water than in its proper natural food. But this is not 
the worst. In a book specially devoted to Australian in- 
fants, it is directed to dilute condensed milk with no less 
than 48 times its buik of water, whereas cows’ milk is only 
to have an equal bulk of water added to it. This seemed 
a distinctly dangerous piece of advice, which required imme- 
diate correction, when’ it was borne in mind that the miik is 
condensed to one-third only. The mothers, in these respects, 
he strongly condemned. Much of it he attributed to 
laziness. They ‘wilfully lowered the birth-rate, or injured 
their infants with foods containing unwholesome preser- 
vatives, and did their best to ruin their country and their 
race. 
Two members spoke more or less in support of the use of 
preservatives, but the Section generally agreed with Dr. 
Greig Smith, who claimed that no one should be dosed 
against his knowledge and will. 
Attention was called later to the “ humanised condensed 
milks’? now being made, and to the report of the Engiish 
vommittee on the subject, one of the recommendations of 
which is, “(e) that in the case of all dietetic preparations 
intended for the use of infants or invalids, chemical preser- 
vatives of all kinds be proliibited.” ; 
NOTES ON THE COMPOSITION OF METEORIC IRON 
FROM BENDOCK, VICTORIA. 
By Joun C. H. Mrneayz, F.1.C., F.C.S., Analyst to the 
' Department of Mines, New South Wales. 
In 1899 a small sample, consisting largely of metallic iron 
much oxidised, also a number of prittlé stones, were sub. 
mitted to a qualitative analysis, and reported to he of 
meteoric origin. s 
A letter from Mr. J. A. Skinsleigh, dated 27.12.’00, to 
the Department, states cs follows:-— Found, about seven 
