II CONTENTS. 



METEOKOLOGY — WATER. 



Page. 



Practical treatise on the weather, Frey])e 10 



Instructions lor cooperative observers 10 



Summaries of temperature?, rainfall, sunshine, and eva})oruti<)n, Ladd 10 



Studies on diurnal ])erii)ds in lower strata of the atmosphere, l)ige!<nv 10 



Meteorological service for forecasting weather, Dufour 10 



Meteorology of Tunis, winter of 1905-6, Ginestous ■ 10 



Contribution to the study of spring and fall frosts, Vanderlinden 11 



Balloons ami kites in the service of meteorology, Dines 11 



Recent practice in the erection of lightning conductors, Henry 11 



Nitrogen as ammonia and nitrates in rain water at IVetoria, Ingle 11 



Water and the law of miniuuim in the fertilization of soils, Thiry 11 



Underground water resources of Long Island, New York, Yeatcli et al 11 



Process of nitrilication with reference to purification of sewage. Chick 12 



The purilication of sewage, Ramsay 12 



SOILS — FEirn r.izERs. 



Rock Aveathering and soil formation in arid and humid regions, Hilgard 12 



On the changes which minerals undergo in cultivated soils, Bieler 12 



AV ire-basket method for determining manurial requirements of soils, Gardner. 12 



Soil analysis and agricultural charts in Italy, Fascetti 1 '? 



The soils of Victoria, Cherry 13 



Notes on physical properties of soils of the Ganges Valley, Leake 13 



Banana soils of St. Mary and Upper St. ( 'atherine [Jamaica], Cousins 13 



The lime content of some esparcet soils, Stebler 14 



Regeneration of overlimed soil, Maki and Tanaka 1-1 



On the formation of humus, Suzuki 14 



Plant nutrition studies, Voorhees and Lipman 14 



Measure of soil fertility from the nitrogen standpoint, Lipman 15 



Variations in nitrogen content of bare soils, Warmbold 16 



Work of Agricultural-Bacteriological Institute of Ciottingen University, Koch. 16 

 On the question whether nitrites or nitrates are produced by non-bacterial 



processes in the soil, Russell and Snuth 17 



Fixation of atmosj)heric nitrogen during decomposition, Montemartini 18 



Investigations on the use of nitrogenous materials, Voorhees and Lipman 18 



Direct utilization of nitrogen of air for fertilizers, etc., Frank 18 



Fertilizer tests of lime nitrogen and nitrate of soda on oats. Otto 18 



Calcium cyanamid and nitrate, and results of their use, von Feilitzen 19 



New nitrogenous manure, lime nitrogen or calcium cyanamid, Ilendrick 19 



Experiments with lime nitrogen as fertilizer for sugar beets, Strohmer 19 



Experiments on the action of nitrogen lime, Bottclier 19 



Lime nitrogen, SjoUema 19 



Results of experiments with calcium cyanamid ( lime nitrogen ), Pozzoli 19 



Factors which influence decomposition f)f calcium cyanamid, Stoklasa 19 



Vegetation exjteriments with "N" fertilizer in 1905, von Lepel 20 



(jreen manuring experiments in 1905, Baessler 20 



Experiments with fertilizers, Stewart and Atwood 20 



Results of cooi)erative experiments with fertilizers on swamp soils, llarcourt. 21 



Tests of Peruvian guano and annnoniated superphosphate 9:9, Arnstadt 21 



The action of ammoniacal nitrogen as a fertilizer, Pfeiffer , ^ 21 



Use of commercial nitrogen in connection with barnyard manure, Bachniann. 21 



The use of waste organic pvi')stances as maiuires, Russell 21 



Action of phosphoric acid on higher plants, von der Crone 21 



On phosphoric acid of ashes, I'rianishnikov 22 



Analysis of deposits of calcium ])hos[)hate in the United States, Jumeau 22 



Tho utilizati(ni of sugar-beet slump by the Dessau method, Ost 22 



History of the fertilizer industry, Ruhm, jr 22 



The chemical fertilizer industry, Schncht 22 



Connnercial fertilizers, (toss and Jones, jr 22 



Analyses of connnercial fertilizers, Scovell et al 23 



Analyses and valuations of fertilizers. Street, Allen, and Carberry 23 



Fertilizer analyses, fall season, 1905, and spring season, 1906, Kilgore 23 



Analyses of connnercial fertilizers 23 



