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1791. Anonymous. Peat as fuel on Swedish railways. Jour. Amer. Peat Soc. 12:210. 

 1919. — Powdered peat is being used as fuel on some locomotives on Swedish railways. As 

 fired it gives 7780 British thermal units per ton. Its use will not be economical when coal is 

 less than $11 per ton. — G. B. Bigg. 



1792. Anonymous. California delta farms. Jour. Amer. Peat Soc. 12:991-201. 1919. — 

 Several thousand acres of tule-covered peat lands near Stockton, California, are being 

 brought into cultivation. — G. B. Rigg. 



1793. Anonymous. U. S. peat industry in 1918. Jour. Amer. Peat Soc. 12:185-187. 

 1919. — Over $1,000,000 worth of peat and peat products were produced in the U. S. in 1918. 

 The chief uses of peat in this country at present are (1) fuel for the production of heat and 

 power, (2) fertilizer, (3) stable litter, (4) stock feed, (5) packing, (6) surgical dressings, 

 (7) agricultural utilization of peat lands. The production of peat fuel in the New England 

 states is increasing rapidly. — G. B. Rigg. 



1794. Anonymous. Lithuania peat deposits. Jour. Amer. Peat Soc. 12:220. 1919. 



1795. Anonymous. Rattan — its source and its services. Sci. Amer. 121: 7. 1919. 



1796. Anonymous. Lily leaves as rafts. Sci. Amer. 121: 61. 1919. 



1797. Anonymous. Fuller's earth. Sci. Amer. 121:149. 1919. 



1798. Anonymous. The possibilities of peat. Sci. Amer. 121: 80. 1919. 



1799. Anonymous. Novel leaf prints. Sci. Amer. Supplem. 88: 89. 1919. 



1800. Anonymous. Flowers and tiny animals in glass. Sci. Amer. Supplem. 87: 296-297. 

 6 fig. 1919. — A brief account of glass-blowing of models at the American Museum of Natural 

 History. — Chas. H. Otis. 



1801. Anonymous. Insulators from kelp. Sci. Amer. 121:335. 1919. — Macrocystis can 

 be made to yield a moist precipitate which can be pressed into any required shape and hard- 

 ened by treatment with formalin, when it turns perfectly in the lathe and takes a high polish. 

 — Chas. H. Otis. 



1802. Anonymous. Wood alcohol — a new industrial monarch. Sci. Amer. 121:462. 

 S fig. 1919. — Possible sources of industrial alcohol mentioned are wood, molasses, the Nipa 

 palm (in the Far East, India, Africa, etc.), the agave (Mexico), gum turpentine and various 

 fruits and vegetables. — Chas. H. Otis. 



1803. Anonymous. The century plant in Mexico. Sci. Amer. Supplem. 87: 313. 2 fig. 

 1919. — The sap of the agave is the source of the national Mexican intoxicants, pu'.que and 

 mescal; an extract of the leaves is employed as a substitute for soap, and they also yield a 

 fiber which is second to only sisal and hemp in rope making. — Chas. H. Otis. 



1804. Anonymous. Vegetarian beef extract. Sci. Amer. 121: 191. 1919. — Yeasts, which 

 are a by-product in the manufacture of ethyl or grain alcohol, may be made to yield a cattle 

 food, are valuable as fertilizers and have infinite possibilities ashumanfood. — Chas. H. Otis. 



1805. Anonymous. [Rev. of Rhodes, L. B. A new seed oil from cockle burr. Amer. 

 Chem. Soc. News Service Bull. 231. 1919.] Jour. Franklin Inst. 187: 744. 1919. 



1806. Behre, A. Nach welcher Richtung ist eine Erganzung oder Abanderung der Richt- 

 linien B der Bekanntmachung vom 8. April 1918, betr. Grundsatze fur die Erteilung oder Ver- 

 sagung der Genehmigung von Ersatzlebensmitteln wiinschenswert? [Approbation of food 

 substitutes.] Zeitschr. Untersuch. Nahrungs- u. Genussmittel. 37:238-255. 1919. 



