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Latimer and F. S. Biicher; Glynn County, Ga., by D. D. Long and J. E. Fer- 

 guson; Columbia County, Ga, by C. N. Mooney and A. E. Taylor; Chilton 

 County, Ala., by L. Cantrell and W. E. Wilkinson; Elmore County, Ala., by 

 E. A. Winston and A. C. McGebee; Jackson and Marshall counties, Ala., by 

 C. S. Waldrop and N. E. Bell; Madison County. Ala., by K. T. A. Burke and 

 A. M. O'Neal, jr.; Mobile County, Ala., by G. B. Maynadier et al. ; Randolph 

 County, Ala., by R. T. A. Burke et al. ; Tuscaloosa County, Ala,, by R. A. Win- 

 ston et al. ; Forrest County, Miss., by W. E. Thai-p and W. M. Spann ; Wayne 

 County. Mi.ss., by A. L. Goodman et al. ; Lowndes County. Miss., by IL C. Smith 

 and A. L. Goodman; Iberia Parish, La., by C. J. Mann and L. A. Kolbe; recon- 

 noissance soil survey of southwest Texas, by A. E. Kocher et al. ; the Huntington 

 area, W. Va., by W. J. Latimer; the Morgantown area, W. Va., by C. N. Mooney 

 and W. J. Latimer; Columbia, Fond du Lac, Juneau, Kewaunee, and La Crosse 

 counties. Wis., by W. J. Geib et al. ; Franklin County, Mo., by E. S. Yanatta 

 and H. G. Lewis ; Laclede County, Mo., by D. D. Long et al. ; Macon County, 

 Mo., by H. Krusekopf and F. S. Buchcr; Platte Countj', Mo., by A. T. Sweet 

 et al. ; soil reconnoissance of the Ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas, by 

 C. F. ]Marbut ; reconnoissance survey of western Nebraska, by T. D. Rice et al. ; 

 Reno County. Kans.. by W. T. Carter, jr., et al. ; Shawnee County, Ivans., by 

 W. C. Byers and R. I. Throckmorton ; reconnoissance survey of southwestern 

 Washington, by A. W. Mangum et al. ; Quincy area, Wash., by A. W. Mangum 

 et al. ; and Medford area, Oreg., by A. T. Strahorn et al. 



During the calendar year 1911, 34,743 square miles, or 22,235.520 acres, were 

 surveyed and mapped in detail on a scale of 1 in. to the mile, making the total 

 area surveyed and mapped up to the end of that year 249,246 square miles, or 

 159.517,440 acres. There were also conducted reconnoissance surveys covering 

 an area of 131,900 square miles, or 84.41 G.wn acres. 



The white soils of the Bram and Reinhard forests in the colored sand- 

 stone regions of the upper Weser River, K. Vogbx von Falckenstein 

 (Internat. Mitt. Bodenk., 4 {19W, No. 2-3, pp. 105-137, figs. 4).— The author 

 briefly describes the colored sandstones of middle and southern Germany and 

 discusses the chemical comiwsitions of some of their supposed weathered 

 products, particularly the white soils, chemical analyses of which he compares 

 with those of the colored sandstones and bleached and ortstein soils. The white 

 soils were richer in clay than the sandstone but differed little in regard to the 

 amounts of other mineral constituents present. In contrast to a typical 

 bleached and ortstein soil, the alkali and other salts tended in a measure to 

 concentrate in the upper layer of the white soil, as did also the weathered clay. 



It is concluded that the white soils are not related to the bleached and ort- 

 stein soils, and that regardless of their greater clay content they are weathered 

 products of the hard colored sandstone. However, the author distinguishes 

 between real and pseudo-white soils, classing as the former those white soils 

 consisting of a loose upper layer and a dense substratum which do not differ 

 widely chemically, and as the latter, soils consisting of a true white soil upper 

 layer and a clay substratum which differ chemically and are of different origin. 



See also a previous note (E. S. R., 30, p. 514.) 



The origin of the red soils of diluvial times, E. Blanck {Jour. Landw., 

 62 (1914), No. 2, pp. 141-147).— A more detailed report on this subject has been 

 previously noted (E. S. R., 29, p. 514). 



Rutherglen Experiment Farm — Report on permanent experiment field, 

 season 1913, A. E. Y. Richardson (Jour. Dept. Agr. Victoria, 12 {1914), No. 3, 

 pp. 142-153, figs. 4).— Chemical analyses of samples of soil from the experi- 

 mental field in their natural state show the soil to be "deficient in nitrogen, 

 lime, and potash, and extremely deficient in phosphoric acid," as compared with 



