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THE report of the year's work of the Central Chemical Laboratory of the Italian Customs at Rome (Annali del Laboratorio Chimico Centrale delle Gabelle, vol. vi., 1912, pp. xxxvii + 707), under the direction of Prof. V. Villavecchia, which has recently been issued, contains an introductory article by the director on the history of its twenty-five years' activity since its inauguration in 1885. In this period 225,679 analyses have been made, and 1524 special reports prepared for various Government departments, whilst 127 original papers have been published in the Annali issued from the laboratory. Recently a museum of commercial products and raw materials has been established in connection with the Central Laboratory, care being taken to ensure the genuine character of all the specimens, so that they can be used as standards of reference by the Government chemists; an account is given in the report of the 32,382 samples collected for this museum, and a description of the building.
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Scientific Work of the Central Chemical Laboratory of the Italian Customs . Nature 91, 229 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091229a0
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