II CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Estimation of oocoauut oil in butter fat. Harris 524 



Detection of cocoanut oil in butter, Liibrig __ 524 



Extraction of fat from feces and occurrence of lecithin. Long 525 



Gravimetric estimation of saltpeter in meat, Paal and Mehrtens 525 



Examination of maple products. The lead value, Sy 525 



Quantitative estimation of ergot in flour, Bernhart 525 



Practical guide for food chemis+s, Pellerin .525 



Yearbook of chemistry, Meyer et al 525 



METEOROLOGY WATER. 



Monthly Weather Review, Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 7, 8 525 



Climatology of Porto Rico from 1867 to 1905, Alexander 526 



Climatological atlas of India, Eliot .526 



The effect of the sea upon climate 527 



Sunrise, moisture, and growth, Rawson 527 



Results of meteorological observations, 1905, Heinrich et al 527 



Swedish meteorological observations, 1905, Hamberg 527 



Meteorology 528 



Hourly meteorological and magnetic observations, Manila observatory — 528 



Precipitation in the North German river basins, Hellmann 528 



Cirrus clouds and rain -= 529 



The Mount Rose weather observatory, Church, jr 529 



Water supply and sewerage 529 



Use of copper in purification of water, Rettger and Endicott 530 



Sulphate of iron and caustic lime in water purification, Ellnis 530 



Water softening and treatment. Booth 530 



SOILS FERTILIZERS. 



Agricultural charts at the Congress of Applied Chemistry, Rome. 1906 531 



Relation between soils and rocks from which derived. Milch 531 



Oxidation in soils and productiveness, Darbishire and Russell 531 



Phospho-humic compounds of the soil, Dumont 531 



Soils of second steppe, Alway 531 



Agricultural value of cacao soils of St. Thomas, Hebert 532 



Soils of the middle buntersaudstein, Blanck i 532 



Management of soils to conserve moisture, Failyer 532 



Soil differences, Bonsteel -332 



Loew's theory regarding the lime-magnesia ratio, de Ruijter de Wildt — 532 



Removal of black alkali by leaching, Cameron and Patten 532 



Decrease of soil temperature in Prologh Mountains, von Kerner 533 



Carbon bisulphid. its action on lower plant organisms. Heinze 5.33 



Utility of earthworms in agriculture, de Ribaucourt and Combault 533 



Some contributions to microbiology of soils, Heinze 533 



Conditions aft'ecting legume inoculation, Kellerman and Robinson 533 



Experiments with nitrogen-assimilating bacteria. Bruttini 534 



New nitrogen bacteria with autotrophic habits of life, Kaserer 534 



Assimilation of nitrogen by Azotobacter and Radiobacter, Stoklasa 534 



The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen 535 



S.vnthesis of nitric acid at ordinary temperature. Berthelot 535 



Industrial utilization of nitrogen of the air, Fuschini 535 



Electrical production of nitric acid from air, Grandeau 536 



Oxidation (jf nitrogen by silent discharges, Warburg and Leithauser 536 



Nitric acid and other spark reactions 536 



A domestic supply of nitrogen, Caro 536 



Nitrogen lime, its use and action 536 



Apparatus for preparation of lime nitrogen and ammonium sulphate 536 



The making of sulphate of ammonia 536 



I'reatnient of vinasse and molasses for nitrogenous matter, Vasseux^ 53(; 



Practical value of lime nitrogen as a fertilizer, von Knierim ■ 536 



Experiments with a cyanamid compound. Shutt and Charlton 537 



Fertilizer experiments in 1905 with calcium cyanamid, Caruso 537 



Decomposition of calcium cyanamid. Perotti 537 



Nitrogen of green manures in light sandy soils, von Seelhorst 538 



