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matter was forming the basis of legal proceedings between Liverpool 
brokers and the importers of the meal, this latter having been 
shipped from America. 
In the end substantial compensation was made to each purchaser 
for the loss or injury done to his cattle. 
YI. With reference to the case of linseed cake supplied to Mr. C. 
E. Galbraith, and reported on page 753 of Part I Y. of Yol.HI. of the 
Journal (December 31, 1892), the Committee have now ascertained 
from Mr. M. D. Penney that the copy certificate of analysis pur- 
porting to have been signed by Mr. Penney, enclosed in Messrs. 
George Meek and Son’s letter to Mr. Galbraith, was not a copy of a 
certificate made by Mr. Penney for or given by him to Messrs. Meek 
and Son, but that it was (with the exception of the date and the 
heading, “ Copy of Analysis of Samples of G. M. 95 per cent. Linseed 
Cakes”) a copy of a certificate given by Mr. Penney on July 30, 
1892, to Messrs. J. Ehlers and Co., of Hull, in respect of a sample of 
cake which bore no stamp or brand ; and the Committee have no 
reason to doubt that Mr. Penney’s analysis thereof was strictly 
correct. 
It appears that on July 30, 1892, Messrs. J. Ehlers and Co. sold 
or contracted to sell to Messrs. George Meek and Son 30 tons of 
‘G. M. 95 per cent. Linseed Cakes” at U. 15s. per ton. Messrs. 
Meek and Son state that Mr. Penney’s analysis was given to them 
by Messrs. Ehlers and Co., who manufactured the cake for them, 
and represented it was a recent analysis of their (Messrs. Meek and 
Son’s) branded cake. They also state that Messrs. Ehlers and Co. made 
them the allowance of 1 Os. per ton which they (Messrs. Meek and Son) 
made to Mr. Galbraith, 
Mr. Penney represents to the Committee that some persons 
reading the former Report have been led by it to believe that the 
sample of impure cake analysed by the Society’s Consulting 
Chemist for Mr. Galbraith was a sample of the same cake as that 
analysed by Mr. Penney. The Committee therefore feel that in 
justice to Mr. Penney this explanation should be made, and that the 
whole of the facts as now known should receive the same publicity 
as the previous Report. 
R. A. Warren, 
December 5, 1893. Chairman. 
APPENDIX 
TIIE FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1893 
(56 <Sc 57 Viet. ch. 66) 
An Act to amend the Law with respect to the sale of Agricultural 
Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs. [22nd September 1893.] 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in 
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as 
follows : 
