Minor punctuation errors (i.e. missing periods) have been silently corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and accented letters have been retained. The use of both c.c. and cc. has also been retained.
Discrepancies between the names in the Table of Contents and List of Plates and on the Chapters and Plates themselves has been retained.
Inconsistencies in spelling have been retained except in the following apparent typographical errors:
Page [34], “wurtzel” changed to “wurzel.” (Mangold wurzel)
Page [62], “demonstated” changed to “demonstrated.” (It was demonstrated that warm milk)
Page [80], “excell” changed to “excel.” (with butter, excel in efficiency)
Page [136], “10·000” changed to “100·00.” (the total of the analysis of American lager beer)
Page [162], “proprotion” changed to “proportion.” (in a maximum proportion of 3 per cent.)
Page [169], “calulated” changed to “calculated.” (calculated by aid of the usual alcohol-metric)
Page [190], “·0012” changed to “0·0012.” (acetic acid, 0·0012 to 0·002)