386 
Harvey  Washington  Wiley. 
(  Am.  .lour.  Pharui, 
\  August, 
ried  on  by  the  department  in  Washington  during  the  year  19 lo,  and 
also  in  examination  of  about  20,000  samples,  the  following  tabulated 
statement  of  the  activities  of  the  twenty-one  branch  laboratories  is 
of  interest  as  indicating  in  a  general  way  the  extent  of  the  work 
done : 
Laboratory 
Imported  samples 
Hearings  con- 
ducted 
Interstate 
samples 
Miscel- 
Total samples 
analyzed 
Legal 
Illegal 
Floor- 
inspec- 
samples 
Legal 
Illegal 
laneous 
sa-nples 

Boston 
460 
2Q  c; 
12  AOA 
674 
7/14. 
2  70 
140 
1,909 
76 
29 
33 
159 
146 
231 
A  T 
523 
125 
2,572 
365 
658 
686 
42 
1,684 
Cincinnati  
4 
28 
239 
1,157 
228 
I 
1,409 
1 1 
1 1 
160 
395 
175 
44 
625 
Detroit  
52 
4 
92 
359 
15^ 
144 
31 
382 
59 
22 
365 
116 
192 
144 
44 
461 
Honolulu  1  
272 
144 
677 
131 
8 
424 
Kansas  City  
.  . . 
103 
125 
127 
252 
Nashville  
157 
191 
65 
256 
New  Orleans  
95 
'84 
2,891 
197 
148 
108 
■76 
511 
New  York  
2,382 
1,632 
47,821 
1,779 
124 
297 
504 
4,939 
Omaha  
3 
69 
239 
1 10 
100 
449 
Philadelphia  
569 
183 
5.250 
293 
41 
114 
48 
955 
Pittsburg  
47 
54 
227 
197 
162 
216 
55 
534 
Portland  
248 
106 
4,636 
137 
112 
143 
46 
655 
St.  Louis  
14 
6 
239 
295 
365 
281 
99 
765 
St.  Paul  
74 
13 
233 
85 
136 
55 
4 
282 
San  Francisco  
237 
209 
8, 100 
491 
469 
375 
153 
1,443 
Savannah  
65 
40 
26 
159 
105 
51 
19 
280 
Seattle  
277 
137 
1.657 
.  113 
50 
41 
168 
673 
Total  
5.130 
3.087 
58,726 
6,278 
5.710 
3.861 
1,623 
19,41 1 
1  Owing  to  death  of  its  chief,  this  laboratory  was  closed  during  the  month  of  June ;  report 
is  total  for  eleven  months. 
Dr.  Wiley  is  not  only  a  man  of  great  executive  ability  but 
possesses  a  marvellous  amount  of  patience.  The  Food  and  Drugs 
Act  of  June  30,  1906,  became  effective  on  the  first  day  of  January, 
1907,  and  yet  in  his  annual  report  to  the  Secretar}/  of  Agriculture 
on  November  13,  1907,  Dr.  Wiley  says: 
"  Previous  to  this  date  (January  i,  1907)  it  was  necessary  to  carry  out 
the  provision  of  the  law  providing  for  the  establishment  of  regulations. 
To  this  end  a  committee,  consisting  of  H.  W.  Wiley,  Chief  of  the  Bureau 
of  Chemistry,  S.  N.  D.  North,  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  the  Census,  De- 
partment of  Commerce  and  Labor,  and  James  L.  Gerry,  Chief  of  the  Division 
of  Customs,  Treasury  Department,  acting  for  the  Secretaries  of  Agriculture, 
