HISTORICAL. NOTES. XI 



OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS, I909. 



No. 7. Standards for beverages. 



No. 8. Bleached flour, benzoate of soda, sulphur dioxide, ice 



cream standards, flavoring" extracts. 

 No. 9. Fertilizer Inspection. Analyses of ^Manufacturers 



Samples. 

 No. 10. Feeding Stufl:' Inspection. 

 No. II. Soda and cream of tartar, sweet corn, maple sugar, 



spices and pepper, sweet spirit of nitre, rice, 



alcohol. 

 No. 12. Text of the laws regulating the sale of : Agricultural 



seeds, apples, creamery glassware, feeding stuffs, 



fertilizers, and foods and drugs. 

 No. 13. Coffee, gelatine, sweet oil, honey. 

 No. 14. Food and Drug Law Standards and Regulations. 

 No. 15. Apples, catchup, cocoa, extracts, spirit of nitrous 



ether, oysters. 

 No. 16. Thickeners for ice cream, jams, jellies, preserves, 



chemicals in food, whiskey, and rice. 

 No. 17. Seed Inspection, 1909. 

 No. 18. Analyses of drugs. The druggist and the law. 



CHANGES IN STAFF. 



June 30, 1909, Prof. F. L. Russell, resigned from the Station 

 Staff' to devote his whole time to teaching in the University. 

 Doctor Russell had been a member of the Experiment Station 

 staff since its reorganization and enlargement in 1888. 



Frank D. Sterry, Laboratory Assistant in Plant Pathology 

 resigned from the Experiment Station June i, 1909. Miss 

 Joanna C. Colcord, Assistant Chemist; ]>»Iiss Annie M. Snow, 

 Clerk and Stenographer to the Director; Mr. R. C. Gellerson, 

 Inspector, resigned from the Experiment Station staff' June 30, 

 1909, and ]\lr. Joseph F. Merrill, Assistant Chemist, resigned 

 December 6, 1909. 



July I, 1909, Mr. Albert G. Durgin, M. S.. was appointed 

 Assistant Chemist; Mr. Harry M. Woods, A. B., Assistant to 

 the Director; Mr. Wellington Sinclair, Superintendent of High- 

 moor Farm; and Mr. John Summers as Laboratory Assistant 

 in Plant Pathology. 



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