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Vol. VI (i885),$t.oo. 



Business Change in the Jour- 

 nal. — Most of our readers will be 

 surprised to learn that the Editor will 

 soon leave the country for a residence 

 of some time in Japan. This change 

 has been in contemplation for several 

 weeks, but it has been deemed best 

 not to make it public until proper 

 arrangements were made for the 

 Journal. For the present no 

 change will be made in the editorial 

 management, but it is not unlikely 

 that a resident Editor will soon be 

 appointed, and that we shall be tem- 

 porarily relegated to the position of 

 special foreign correspondent. At 

 all events, our readers may be as- 

 sured that no ineans will be spared 

 to ensure the satisfactory conduct and 

 continued prosperity of the Journal. 



As will be seen from the cover, 

 Mr. Rufus W. Deering has assumed 

 the business management, which has, 

 in fact, already been in his charge 

 for some time. Mr. Deering is an 

 experienced business man, and in 

 future will have entire control of the 

 business of the Journal. It is ex- 

 pected that this arrangement will re- 

 sult in great benefit to the Journal 

 in several ways, but joarticularly in 

 the increase of its subscription list, 

 through a systematic attention to 



details of the business, which it has 

 been practically impossible for us to 

 give, even had we been at any time 

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It is the intention of Mr. Deering 

 to establish, in connection with his 

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 the sale of periodicals, including 

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 furnish books of all kinds. This will 

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Detection of Fats in Butter. 

 — The processes discovered by Dr. 

 Thomas Taylor, and already pub- 

 lished in these columns, for detecting 

 adulterations in butter have attracted 

 great attention throughout the coun- 

 try, and are deserving of thorough 

 investigation. The subject' was re- 

 ferred to a special committee of the 

 American Society of Microscopists 

 at its last meeting, and it is expected 

 that the committee will report at its 

 next meeting. We learn, from pri- 

 vate sources, that the results of the 

 observations of the committee have 

 sustained Dr. Taylor's assertions, and, 

 without wishing to forestall the report 

 of the committee by extending these 

 remarks into particulars, we may ex- 

 press the belief that the accuracy of 

 Dr. Taylor's work will be acknowl- 

 edged. In some apparently mysteri- 

 ous manner, however, the report of 

 the committee seems to have disap- 

 peared, and at least some mem- 

 bers of the committee are unable to 

 understand the cause. It has been 

 intimated to us that one gentleman in 

 Chicago prepared a report which was 



