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their business ; and, of course, rather than be 

 stigmatized as quacks, they will at once qualify 

 themselves accordingly, and then we hope they 

 will feel the additional accountability they have 

 imposed on themselves, and make a better use 

 of their knowledge than the Soluble Pacific 

 Guano Company. 



Their remarks on the practices of Anlytical 

 Chemists are very exceptionable, and demand a 

 few words of explanation. We don't wish to 

 be considered apologists for these chemists they 

 are getting all they deserve but it is not right 

 that their profession should be made disreputa- 

 ble on their account. In too many instances 

 they have made willing tools of themselves to 

 advance the interests and further the dishonest 

 practices of these manufacturers ; but after it is 

 done, these manufacturers, in common with 

 other leading swindlers, shoulder all the re- 

 sponsibility on their subordinates. No honest 

 chemist, in rendering an analysis of a fertilizer, 

 would confound the potash as existing in the 

 sulphate or muriate with that of felspar, or with 

 felspar itself; neither would he make use of 

 the combining numbers of gaseous ammonia 

 with one equivalent of water, nor of the com- 

 bining numbers of hydrate of ammonia for those 

 of gaseous ammonia without an explanation, or 

 use such a term as " Soluble Bone Phosphate of 



