358 Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee, 1888. 
"Chemical Laboratory, 11 High Street, Hull: 
November 30, 1887. 
" Certificate op Analysis from M. D, Penney, F.C.S. 
"Sample linseed -cake marked ' 'received November 28 from 
Messrs. 
Per cent. 
Moisture 15-00 
Oil 9-24 
* AlbuminoTis compounds ..... 27'91 
Mucilage, &c 32-99 
Woody fibre 7-06 
Ash . ■. ; 7-80 
100-00 
' Nitrogen ....... 4-41 
Equal to ammonia 5-.3.5 
" This is a sample of good linseed-cake, fully up to the average in albu- 
minous compounds. (Signed) " M. D. Penney." 
Mr. Wood wrote to the makers :— 
" Februaiy 7, 1888. 
" ^Iessrs. , — I have paid Mr. 28/. 15s. for the 5 tons linseed- 
cake that I bought of him of your make, and which had a very impure 
analysis. I may tell you, as I told your traveller a week last Tuesday, 
that I shall pay no more. 
" I bought the cake to he purelinseed,a,xi.d. every cake had PURE marked 
on it, so it plainly shows who was in fault. . , . — Yours truly, 
" Rowland "Wood." 
The manufacturers replied : — 
" , Hull : February 9, 1888. 
" Dear Sir, — We have your letter, which has evidently been written 
under a misapprehensioli of the facts. 
* We expressly sold and invoiced the cake to Mr. as Oil-Cake, not as 
Linseed-Cake, and he ought to have done the same. If you request him to 
show you the correspondence you will see that is so. Mr. knows we 
are not to blame in the matter. 
" AVe, however, offered to divide the 5/. with him. We shall leave it to 
his sense of what is right. — Yours truly, " " 
Mr, Wood subsequently informed Dr. Voelcker that he de- 
ducted 5?. from the account. 
5. Mr. R. G. Scriven, of Castle Ashby, Northampton, sent 
on November 24, 1887, for analysis, a sample of linseed-cake, 
on which the report was : — 
