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there are to be six numbers annually, was established in response to a wide- 

 spread demand which was voiced in a resolution adopted by the International 

 Agrogeological Congress in Stockholm in 1910. It is the first journal to be 

 exclusively devoted to the subject of soils. Its announced purpose is to ad- 

 vance the scientific and practical knowledge of soils in the widest sense. Each 

 number is to contain original articles, scientific news notes, abstracts, and 

 announcements of new publications. 



It is to be hoped that the journal will be made truly international in char- 

 acter and will gather in its pages the best results of soil investigations through- 

 out the world, the reports of which are now widely scattered and in many cases 

 practically inaccessible. 



The Journal of Genetics has been established under the editorship of W. 

 Bateson, director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, and R. C. 

 Punnett, professor of biology in the University of Cambridge. It is stated 

 that the periodical will be devoted mainly to the publication of records of 

 original research in heredity, variation, and allied subjects, and to articles 

 summarizing from time to time the existing state of knowledge in the various 

 branches of genetics. 



It will be issued in parts as material accumulates and four such parts ap- 

 pearing annually, so far as possible, will constitute a volume. The initial num- 

 ber contains the following articles: White-flowered Varieties of Primula 

 sinensis, by Frederick Keeble and Miss C. Pellew; The Inheritance of Color 

 and Other Characters in the Potato, by Eedcliffe N. Salaman and Miss Pellew; 

 Studies in the Inheritance of Doubleness in Flowers — I, Petunias, by E. R. 

 Saunders; and The Effects of One-Sided Ovariotomy on the Sex of the Offspring, 

 by L. Doncaster and F. H. A, Marshall. 



The Agricultural Journal of Egypt is being issued from time to time by the 

 Director-General of the Department of Agriculture. The initial number con- 

 tains the following articles : The Department of Agriculture and an Indication 

 of Some of the Agricultural Problems in Egypt, by G. C. Dudgeon ; Report on 

 the Manurial Trials on Cotton Carried Out on the State Domains, 1910, by 

 Frank Hughes and H. C. Jeffereys; The Soy Bean, by G. C. Dudgeon; Dis- 

 tribution of Cotton Seed on Credit to the Smaller Cultivators, by A. T. Mc- 

 Killop ; Cotton Cultivation in Upper Egypt, by I. E. Fahmy ; Methods Employed 

 in Egypt and Elsewhere to Check the Ravages of the Cotton Boll Worm, by G. C. 

 Dudgeon ; and note on Rice Cultivation in the Delta, by R. W. Brigstocke. 



Revista de Medicina Veterinaria de la Escuela de Montevideo is being issued 

 as the monthly organ of the veterinary school at Montevideo. An account of 

 the school and its organization and curriculum, together with plans and illus- 

 trations of its large and attractive buildings and equipment, appears in the 

 initial number, together with an article on piroplasmosis by the director of the 

 school. Dr. D. E. Salmon, formerly chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 this Department, articles on meat inspection, reports of the hospital clinics of 

 the school, reviews of cuiTent literature, and notes. 



ZentralNatt filr allgemeine und ex^iyerimentelle Biologic is a semimonthly ab- 

 stract journal of general and experimental biology. It is under the editorship 

 of Dr. Heinrich Poll, of Berlin. 



Boletin de la Direccion General de Agricultura is being published by the secre- 

 tary of public works of Mexico. It is issued in three parts, the first being 

 devoted to agriculture and zootechny, the second to rural economics and soci- 

 ology, and the third to forestiy, replacing the Revista Forestal formerly pub- 

 lished by the forestry division, which has been recently merged with the depart- 

 ment of agriculture. Contributions are to be received from the members of the 



