II CONTEJSITS. 



Composition of Tunisian olive oils, Marrillo 712 



Estimation of lecithin in oil, Frescnius and (iriinhut 712 



The examination and judgment of milk, Liihrig and Krcssner 713 



The original acidity of milk, Bordas and Touplain 713 



Determination of phosphorus in milk, Rloniewski 71 3 



The determination of phosphorus in milk, Bordas and Touplain 713 



The "neu-sal" milk test, Golding 713 



Influence of various preservatives upon results with the "sal" method, Hesse. 714 



Determination of fat in butter by the " sal " method, Kersten 714 



Recent methods for examining butter for foreign fats, Barthel 714 



Determining ice cream thickeners, renovated V:)utter, and oleomargarine, Patrick 714 



Investigations of koumiss in the Steppes, Ginzberg 714 



Artificial koumiss and kefir, Ginzberg 715 



The determination of camphor. Fuller ,. . 715 



Quantitative estimation of nitric acid in vegetable products, Krog and Sebelieii . 715 



Determination of malic acid, Dunbar and Bacon 715 



Principles and practice of cider making. Barker 710 



The principles of wine making, Bioletti 710 



The significance of mineral salts in vinegar fermentation, Wiistenfeld 716 



Paints; their service condition, Ladd and Ware 710 



METEOROLOGY — WATEU. 



The Russian Bureau of Agricultural Meteorology, Brounov 717 



Changes in climate since the last glacial period 717 



Monthly Weather Review 717 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Hallowell . 717 



Probable influence of the soil on local atmospheric radioactivity, Sanderson... 718 



Buckwheat and frost, Pulman..., 718 



Action of weather and moisture in soil on the growth of buckwheat, Pulman . . 718 



Effect of weather on the growth of oats and millet, Pulman 718 



Action of soil moisture on the growth of oats, Pulman 719 



The fertilizing value of rain and snow, Shutt 719 



[Composition of rain water, British Guiana], Harrison 719 



Further experiments on dew ponds, Martin 719 



The geology of water supply, W^oodward 719 



The bacteriology of ice, Jordan 719 



Significance of flora and fauna in maiiitaining purity of natural waters, Marsson 719 



Hypochlorite treatment of public water supplies, Johnson 720 



Industrial sterilization of w^ter with ultraviolet light, von Recklinghausen. . . 720 



Sewage pollution of Lake Erie and the Niagara River, McLaughlin 720 



Modern methods of sewage purification, Kershaw 720 



Residential sewage disposal plants, Pratt 720 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Preliminary report on the Klamath marsh experiment farm , Scofield and Briggs . 720 



The conservation of [Iowa] soils 721 



A preliminary report on the mountain soils, Kilgore et al 721 



A chemical study of certain Sandhill soils of South Carolina, Keitt 721 



Analyses of characteristic northwest timber soils, Jones 721 



Soils of the Gezira, Beam 722 



The vineyard soils of Switzerland, Baragiola and Godet 222 



The arsenical soils of Reichenstein, Silesia, Gruner 722 



The weathering of silicate rocks, Stremme 722 



Determination of the outer soil surface, Mitscherlich, Scheeffer, and Floess 723 



The biological stimulation of natural humus, Remy and Rosing 723 



Examination of soils for organic constituents, Schreiner and Lathrop 723 



The distribution of organic constituents in soils, Schreiner and Lathrop 724 



A peculiar soil sickness, Hudig 724 



A comparison of soil disinfectants, Loew 724 



Importance of soil reaction in relation to productiveness, WeibuU 724 



Potash in clay and granitic soils, Barcia y Trelles 725 



Action of different proportions of lime and magnesia, Lemmermann et al 725 



Investigations on the lime requirements of cultivated soils, Lemmermann et al. 725 



The relation of recent soil investigations to the use of fertilizers, Cameron 720 



The use of fertilizers from the time of Thaer to the present, Gerlach 726 



The use of commercial fertilizers on moors, heaths, and marshes, Tacke 726 



