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potash and sodium cyanid from tlie final leacliings in tlie strontium disintegra- 

 tion process, and finally the mailing of organic chemical products from molasses, 

 particularly the extraction and utilization of betain. 



Veg'etable milk and casein, F. J. G. Beltzer (Rev, Chim. Indus., 22 (1911), 

 No. 259. ijp. 209-212; Sci. Amcr. Sup., 12 (1911), No. 1859, p. iJo).— This is a 

 discussion in regard to the utilization of soy-bean products, particularly for 

 produchig vegetable millc, casein, and a variety of other producis. 



Process of manufacturing industrial alcohol, glucose, and pure cellulose 

 from vine shoots, P. Variot (French Patent 429,825, May 3, 1911 ; uhs. in Jour. 

 Soc. Chem. Indus., 30 (1911), No. 22, p. 1329).— The vine shoots, which con- 

 tain 21.16 per cent of starcliy matter and 31.7 per cent of cellulose, are ground 

 and boiled with dilute sulphuric acid. The acid solution of glucose resulting 

 is decanted and expressed from the residue, neutralized with lime, fermented, 

 and distilled. The i-esidue is ground, macerated with cold, concentrated sul- 

 phuric acid, and the process repeated. Yields of 140 and 150 liters, respec- 

 tively, of 90 per cent alcohol are obtained from the 2 treatments. If desired, the 

 cellulose residue may be used for pai)er malving, 



Repoi't on the study of fermentations in the manufacture of Jamaica rums, 

 S. F. ASHBY (Rpt. Jamaica Sugar Expt. Sta., 3 (1908-1910), pp. 108-129). — 

 This article discusses types of rum, micro-organisms of the distillery, sending 

 and preparing yeasts for estates, experiments with fission yeasts in dunder and 

 concentrated cane juice wasli, distillery experiments, the rice grain bacterium, 

 orange wine, orange vinegar, yeast cultures in cane juice peptone broth, and 

 the literature of rum and fermentation. 



Methods for the utilization of wood waste, G. Walkkr (Jour. Soc. Chem. 

 Indus., 30 (1911), No. 15, pp. 93-)-936).— This has particular reference to the 

 use of wood waste for the products of destructive distilhition. 



Extracts from the proceedings of the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists, 1911 (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Chem. Circ. 90, pp. 19). — This is an 

 advance circular giving the recommendatious of the referees, most of which 

 have been previously noted (E. S. R., 26, p. 97), as well as some of the pro- 

 ceedings which affect the work of 1912. 



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Climatic control, L. C. W. Bonacina (London, 1911, pp. VIII +167, pis. S, 

 figs. 23). — This is one of a series of small textbooks prepared for use in schools, 

 and deals briefly with general principles of climatology, types of land in rela- 

 tion to climate in the British Isles and in some foreign countries, the influence 

 of climate on man indi\'idually indoors and out-of-doors, and the influence of 

 climate on man from the standpoint of race and nationality. There is also 

 a brief chapter on meteorology with a short list of standard works on this 

 subject. 



Phenology and climatology in the service of fruit culture and agriculture, 

 JocHiMSEN (Filhling's Landic. Ztg., 61 (1912), No. 1, pp. 26-33). — This article 

 reviews the phenological work of G. Karsten, W. Koppen, E. Ihne, and others, 

 and urges the importance of extending such observations and introducing the 

 more general use of phenological charts. 



Monthly Weather Review (Mo. Weather Rev., 39 (1911), Nos. 10, pp. 

 U67-1632, pis. 9, figs. 12; 11, pp. 1633-1790, pis. 10).— In addition to the 

 usual climatological summaries, weather forecasts and warnings for October 

 and November, 1911, river and flood observations, lists of additions to the 

 Weather Bureau library and of recent papers on meteorology and seismology, a 



