CONTENTS. V 



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A new pepper disease, Ridley 448 



A new disease of the potato, Trabut 448 



On the cause of canker on fruit and foliage trees, Weese 448 



Silver-leaf disease. Brooks 448 



A study of the diseases of apples and pears, Griffon and Maublanc 449 



Leaf scald or fruit spot, McAlpine 449 



A disease of the cultivated fig, Wolf 449 



Stem-end rot of citrus fruits (Phomopsis ep.), Fawcett 449 



The "brusca" of coffee, Averna-Sacca 450 



A new Nectria and its Fusarium generation appearing on raspberry, Osterwalder. 450 



Infection of grape with downy mildew, Miiller-Thurgau 450 



Some diseases in orchids, Sorauer 450 



Rose mildew, Norton and Wliite 450 



Two new bacterial enlargements on the leaves of certain Rubiaceae, Boas 451 



Oak mildew, Cuif 451 



Lophodermium macrosporum on the spruce, Mer 451 



The die-back disease and a note on the leaf diseases of Para rubber, Bancroft 451 



Additional data on the artificial medication of trees, Mokrzhetsk'ii 451 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY^ENTOMOLOGY. 



A list of the birds of the island of St. Lucia, Clark 451 



The injurious birds of France, D' Arenberg 452 



Crows and the damage they cause in Denmark, Boas 452 



The physiological effects of low temperatures, Pictet 452 



Report of the entomologist of the Arizona Horticultural Commission, Morrill . . 452 



Agricultm-al defense 452 



Second report on economic biology, Collinge 452 



Insects injurious to stored grains, seeds, etc., in Egypt, Willcocks 453 



Tobacco insects of Tennessee, Morgan 453 



The insect enemies of the beet, Picard 454 



The cotton stainer t)ug, Guppy and Thornton 454 



The chinch bug {Blissus leucopterus), Gossard 454 



Results of white-fungus disease in fighting chinch bugs, Billings and Glenn. . . . 454 



The chinch-bug fungus, Billings and Glenn 455 



The Psyllidae of Japan, Kuwayama 455 



San Jos6 scale in the Transvaal {Aspidiotus pernidosus) , Hardenberg 455 



Studies of comparative lepidopterology, Oberthiir 455 



Native silkworms of Africa, Michel 455 



The Papilionidae of Japan, Matsumm-a 455 



Cultural methods for controlling cotton boll worm, McClelland and Sahr 455 



Bag-shelter caterpillars that are reputed to kill stock, Froggatt 456 



March flies, Froggatt 456 



The dying of pine in the Southern States: Cause, extent, and remedy, Hopkins. 456 



Practical information for beginners in bee keeping, Newell 456 



Results of the cooperative experiments on the control of swarming, Pettit 457 



A bee disease due to a protozoal parasite {Nosema apis), Fantham and Porter. . 457 



Relation of food to reproductive acti\dty and longevity in parasites, Doten 457 



Millipedes destroying vegetables, French 458 



The cattle tick as affected by climate 458 



The cattle tick, Reid 460 



New species of ticks (Haemaphysalis, Amblyomma), Robinson 460 



Some researches on the life cycle of spirochetes, Fantham 460 



On the life cycle of Spirochseta gallinarum, Hindle 460 



Suspected cases of human plague and an epizootic in rodents 461 



A plague-like disease with note on Bacterium tularense, McCoy and Chapin . . . 461 



POODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



[Food analyses and other pure food and drug topics], Ladd and Johnson 461 



[Food analyses and other pure food and drug topics], Ladd and Johnson 462 



[Food analyses and other pure food and drug topics], Ladd and Johnson 462 



Influence of method of cooking on the water content of food materials, Labbe. . . 462 



The cooking and chemical composition of some English fish, Williams 463 



The aging of flour and its effect on digestion, Wesener and Teller 463 



Concerning stringiness in bread, Neumann and Kuischewsky 463 



