evi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August, 
No fewer than 3,000 members attended the London Con- 
geess this year, besides several ladies, and the meetings took 
place in the University of London, Imperial Institute, and the 
Royal College of Science, South Kensington. 
On Wednesday, 27th May, a Mansion House banquet fol- 
lowed by a reception by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs at the 
Guildhall served to introduce the scientists to each other. 
address, and Sir William Ramsay, the President, accomplished 
the interesting feat of addressing the assembly in the four offi- 
cial languages of the Congress—English, French, German and 
Italian. The wet afternoon failed in damping the enthusiasm 
of the proceedings. 
n Friday morning, at ten, the delegates and members 
plunged into the serious business of the Congress. For work- 
ing purposes the subject of Applied Chemistry was divided into 
18 independent sections. ‘These included Organic and In- 
Systems for the control of the food supply. 
Legal standards of composition of food and drugs. 
The composition and analysis of food and drugs. 
The use of preservatives in food. 
This section also discussed a report from the International 
Commission for the Unification of Analytical Methods; it de 
voted a whole afternoon to the consideration of cocoa aD 
a ; and formulated international definitions of beer and 
andy. 
In the section of Hygiene 36 ted dealing 
: i papers were presente 
with such subjects as the sterilisation of water by ozone, lead 
poisoning, the purification of sewage by various methods, the 
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