=Sirups.=—Three samples of maple-sirup. Two were pure, and one, manufactured in Chicago and sold in cans, contained 35 per cent of artificial glucose. In 1870 Dr. Chandler found .02 per cent of tin in each of two samples of sugar-house sirups. This represents .8 grain of tin to the gallon. A common adulterant of sirups is glucose, which diminishes their sweetening power, but is not considered injurious. =Spices.=—One hundred and eighty samples, comprising mustard, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, cassia, cloves, white, black, and red pepper, mace, and nutmeg. One hundred and twelve were adulterated from 40 to 81.8 per cent. All the adulterations were harmless (wheat and buckwheat bran, hulls of different seeds, middlings of corn-meal, stale ship’s bread, peas, beans, etc.). No poisonous substance was found. (Lattimore.) =Sugar.=—One hundred and sixteen samples, principally collected in New York city. Care was taken to secure the samples from different sections of the city and from all classes of stores. Of these, thirtyfour were microscopically clean, fifty-four slightly contaminated with dust, twenty-two contained considerable dirt, and six were very dirty. But in no case was there an intentional addition of insoluble mineral matters. Of forty-nine white sugars, all were pure; of sixty-seven brown sugars, four were adulterated with glucose. (A. L. Colby, Ph. B.) There have been many exaggerated statements put forth regarding the adulteration of sugar. In 1870 Dr. Chandler reported to the New York City Board of Health that sixty samples of sugar bought at small groceries were found pure and unadulterated without exception. In 1872, Elwyn Waller, for the same board, examined one hundred and nine samples of powdered sugar, but found no adulteration. Powdered sugar is quite generally believed to be adulterated with gypsum or flour. As both of these adulterants are insoluble in water, it is easy for any one to convince himself of the purity of sugar by dissolving it in water. =Teas.=—Forty-three samples of green tea, and eighteen of black. Many were cheap and of very inferior quality, some mere tea rubbish, yet no leaf, or fragment of a leaf, which was examined, could be considered anything but tea. No adulterations were found, and even the admixture of exhausted leaves could not be positively asserted. (Lattimore.) Suspected leaves should be wet and spread out, and then compared with leaves known to be genuine. It is said that exhausted leaves of green tea are often colored or “faced” with plumbago, Prussian blue, soapstone, etc., so artfully that only an expert can detect the fraud. Black tea is generally pure. =Vinegar.=—Four samples, all poor, but not adulterated, unless with water. (Lattimore.) =Whisky.=—Twenty-five samples. Fusel-oil decided in twenty, and traces in the rest. No injurious adulteration found. “It is evident that the addition of water and coloring-matter is practiced more than any other adulteration.” (Engelhardt.)