Water analysis.

Date:
[1877]
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Credit: Water analysis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tained, at the cost of public bodies or private individuals, for their own guidance in connection with the Water Bill now before Parliament, and the results to which that Bill may or must lead. To those who have yet to procure such analyses, we have this to say : that it is most desirable all analyses should be conducted and drawn up on some uniform plan, so as to be comparable with some recognised standard. Such a standard is to be found in the Government Blue-Book of 1874 (on Water-supply), which contains no less than 2000 chemical analyses of waters of all kinds, from all parts of Scotland and England : these analyses having been made under the auspices of Professor Frankland, in his labora- tory in London. In order to obtain additional analyses, comparable with the series in question, it is only necessary to select as the analysts either Professor Frankland himself or some of his former assistants or pupils. One of the lat- ter now makes and publishes periodic investiga- tions of the varying quality of the Loch Katrine water as supplied to Glasgow, viz., Professor Mills, the Director of the Young Laboratory of Technical Chemistry in the Andersonian Uni- versity. The fee of either of these first-rate chemists—both of whom are Fellows of the Royal Society, while Professor Frankland is a D.C.L., and Professor Mills a D.Sc.—is only five guineas for each sample of water analysed and reported upon : a piece of information that may encourage those who are in any doubt as to the quality of their Water-supply to put an end to their difficulty by application to either of the eminent chemists just mentioned. We have incidentally stated that chemical analy- sis is but one form of water analysis. It is the only form of water analysis known, apparently, to the citizens of Perth. But there is another