11 CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Roartions for lactic and glycollic acids, Deniges 212 



Detection of hoik'd milk by the microscope, Morres 212 



Delect io!i oi mar^'arin in butter, IJardelli 212 



|Tlie detection of iron and c<:i)])er in cheese cnrdj, Schaeffer 212 



Is formaldehyde j)roduced by boilino; solutions of cane sugar? La Wall 212 



Lead number of vanilla extracts, Jackson and McGeorge, jr 218 



(Oflicial methods of wine analysis of P>ench Ministry of Commerce] 21:^ 



Detection of fluorids in wines, Mensio 213 



The determination of saccharin in beer, Jorgensen 213 



A simi^le method of detecting sulphured barley and oats, Carroll 213 



Uniform methods for analysis of cotton-seed i)roduct3 213 



A practical method of detecting peanut hulls in linseed cake, Collin 213 



p]xamination of molasses feeds with the immersion refraclometer, Schlicht. ... 2! t 



A comi)arison of various methods for sugar in urine. Funk 21-1 



Report of the senior analyst for the year 1 908, .Turitz 214 



Fermentation bacteriology and control of fermentation industries, Hennc^berg. 214 



A study of the micro-organisms of Japanese vinegar, Takahashi 211 



A preliminary note on the varieties of Aspergillus oryzA, Takahashi 211 



Enological studies, Alwood 214 



A method for removing dextrose from mixtures of dextrose and levulose, Adler. . 215 



A manual of sugar chemistry, Sidersky 215 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



Monthly Weather Review 215 



A chronological outline of the history of meteorology in the United States 21(j 



Report of the Iowa \\'eather and ( 'rop Service for 1908, Chappel 216 



Fourth annual report of the meteorological committee 21G 



The mean temperature of the air at sea level, Fritsche 216 



The probable influence of the moon on atmospheric radioactivity, Besson 216 



Correlation in seasonal variation of climate, Walker 217 



Cirrus clouds and rainfall 217 



Frost damage prevented by covers, McAdie 217 



The cold waves of south-central Wisconsin, Bartlett 217 



Biology and meteorology, Prochnow 217 



Methods and apparatus for the ol)servation and study of evaporation, Marvin. 217 



An annotated bibliography of evaporation, Livingston 217 



Underground water in crystalline rocks, Clapp 218 



The selection of a water supply, Ogden 218 



The location, construction, and care of wells, Wachter 218 



The pollution of streams by domestic sewage and industrial wastes, Horton 218 



Report on sewerage and water supplies, Herbert 218 



Purification of potable waters 218 



SOILS FERTILIZERS. 



Electrochemical methods in soil investigations, Cameron 219 



The physical properties of soils, Trnka 219 



The influence of lime on the movement of water in soils, Blanck 219 



The action of commercial fertilizers on percolation of water in soils, Blanck. . . 220 



The soil considered as a transformation laboratory, Maiziferes 220 



Investigations on assimilable jjotash in soils, Bieler 220 



Contriljution to the knowledge of humus compounds, Donath 221 



Investigations on Azotobacler chroococcum, Krzemeniewski 221 



The bearing of carbon determinations on nitrogen fixation in soils, Ehrenberg. 221 



Some conditions favoring nitrification in soils, Lyon and Bizzell 221 



A contribution to the nitrogen problem under dry farming, Alwav 221 



The yeast of the soil, Bowker ._ '. 222 



Inoculation of the soil with the bacteria of leguminous plants, Grandeau 222 



Inoculation experiments with bacteria from different sources, Doyarenko 222 



Brack soils, Juritz 222 



Experiments on alkali soils in Temir in the Ural region, Skalov 222 



Nebraska soils, Condra 222 



Notes on the soils of Porto Rico, Loew 222 



Soils in the vicinity of Berlin, Orth 223 



Soil analyses 223 



