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J. P. Finlay. 

 Character of 600 Tornadoes. 



F. W. Christern. 

 Catalogue of Foreign Periodicals. 



Wm. E. Chandler. 

 Instructions for observing the Transit of Venus, Dec. 6, 18S3. 



Prof. E. F. Hilgard. 

 Catalogues of California Agricultural College. 



Gen. W. B. Hazen. 

 How to Foretell Frosts. 

 History of United States Signal Service. 



Sir J. B. Laioes, LL. D., England. 



Equivalency of Starch and Sugar in Food. 

 Amount and composition of Eaiu and Drainage Water. 

 Appearance of Nitric Acid during Evaporation of Water. 

 Determining of Carbon Dioxide in Soil. 

 Determining Nitric Acid in Soil. 



Determining Nitric Acid in Soils by means of Indigo. 

 Determination of Nitric Acid as Nitric Oxide, three parts. 

 On NitriGcation, three parts. 

 Kesults of Mixed Herbage in Meadows. 

 Kesult of Field Experiments, 1880. 

 Result of Field Experiments, 1882. 

 Relation of Food to the Animal Body. 

 Farm Manures and Artificial Manures. 

 Equivalency of Starch and Sugar in Food. 

 Formation of Fat in the Animal Body. 

 Rainfall, Evaporation, and Percolation. 

 Animal Nutrition. 

 Vegetation. 



Is Higher Farming a Remedy for Lower Prices ? 

 Freedom in Growth and Sale of Crops on the Farm. 

 Chemistry of Feeding Animals. 

 Exhaustion of the Soil. 

 Contribution to Chemistry of Fairy Rings. 

 Determination of Nitrogen in Soils at Rothamstead. 

 Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society. 



Agricultural, Botanical, and Chemical Results of Experiments on the' 

 Mixed Herbage of Permanent Meadows. 



J. T. Henderson. 

 Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Ga. 



E. J. Donald. 

 Slavery and Protection. 



John Eaton. 



Circulars of Information, Bureau of Education. 



