COMMENTS BY IMPORTERS.

A copy of each analysis was sent to the consignee in all cases, but in some instances they were returned marked "Not found" and these firms could not be located. In a few cases the consignees made. some comments, the most important of which are quoted below:

Your laboratory No. 198 a represents an importation of sumac with 25 per cent lentiscus, especially so ordered and imported for a New York firm with their knowledge that it was so admixed and was known in the trade as No. 2 goods. Laboratory No. 156, showing an abundance of lentiscus * [is] the same as lot No. 198 *

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[and] has been imported with the condition of second quality, i. e., to contain 25 per cent lentiscus.

LEBER & SON.

Leber & Son again stated on February 20, 1908, that the lot from which sample No. 1511 was taken was imported mixed with lentiscus on the order of the purchaser.

TABLE III.-Chemical and microscopical examination of Sicilian sumac sampled in 1907.

Extra ventilated, 49. 90 46. 77 3. 13 20. 58 26. 19 3.011.0 Sumac with bare

1760 C. Wederkind & Co., Palermo. Leber & Son, New York..