VI ' CONTENTS. 



The insect enemies of the cotton boll weevil, Pierce, Cushman, and Hood 59 



A weevil {Msiotes leiicurus) destructive to Pinus halepensis, Froggatt 60 



Historical notes on the causes of bee diseases, Phillips and Wliite 60 



Two new genera and six new species of parasitic Hymenoptera, Gahan 60 



The cotton leaf blister mite in Barbados 60 



Insecticides for the field, orchard, garden, and house, Maxwell-Lefroy 61 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Bacteriology of eggs and egg products with special reference to B. coli, Maurer. . 61 



Healthfulness of frozen and desiccated eggs and judging them, Maurer 62 



Proper handling of dressed poultry, Pennington 62 



Bacterial purification of oysters in artificial sea water, Fabre-Domergue 63 



Floating oysters in filtered artificial sea water, Bodin 63 



Cheese and its economical uses in the diet, Langworthy and Hunt 63 



Kafir corn flour bread, Dillon. 63 



Coffee and coffee substitutes 63 



Food analyses No. XXXVII, Cady and Jackson 64 



' " ' ' " - , . , . , Ladd and Johnson 64 



, Ladd and Johnson 64 



[Food inspection and other pure food and drug topics 

 [Food inspection and other pme food and drug topics 



Twenty-sixth annual report of the Ohio Dairy and Food Commissioner, Strode. . 64 



[A summary of the work of the food and dairy commission for 1911] 64 



Laws of Massachusetts pertaining to the business of slaughtering 65 



The progress of international commerce in perishable foodstuffs, Hitier 65 



Gas and electric cooking 65 



A gas cooker of novel construction 65 



Nourishment of pupils in Munich public schools, Oppenheimer and Landauer. . 65 



Second experimental march to investigate the amount of food required 65 



Disappearance of beri-beri from the Philippine (native) scouts, Chamberlain. . 66 



Report of U. S. Army Board for Study of Tropical Diseases, Chamberlain et al . . 66 



The influence of fat in the food upon the body fat of carp, Konig et al 66 



Condition of the liver as influenced by various kinds of food fats, Chalatow 66 



Lecithin and its significance, Nerking 67 



The respu-ation calorimeter in vegetable physiology, Langworthy and Milner. . 67 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



[Nutrition investigations], Russell 68 



Analyses of fodder plants, gi-asses, ensilages, etc., Briinnich 68 



The use of ensilage 68 



The large sunflower and sunflower cake, Papaioannou 68 



[Analyses of feeding stuffs], Sandles 68 



Stock feed : Bran, shorts, chop feed, McGill 68 



Investigations on the stomach of ruminants, especially the Tragulidse, Schmidt. 68 



The effect of alcohol on the movements of the paunch in ruminants, Knaupp. . 68 



The significance of the pulse rate in vertebrate animals, Buchanan 68 



The temperature of the skin of horses and cattle, Spoerl 69 



Role of interstitial testicular cells, Mazzetti 69 



Biometric ideas and methods in biology; significance and limitations, Pearl. . . 69 



Skull measurements in man and the hoofed mammals, Osborn 69 



Breeding in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Misson 69 



Stock breeding in Kafa, Abyssinia, Bieber 69 



The live-stock markets of London 69 



Reproduction and inheritance in race hygiene, von Gruber and Riidin 70 



Bakker-Dettweiler theory of the ancestry of black and white cattle, Laessig. . . 70 



On the origin and classification of our domesticated cattle, Holdefleiss 70 



The origin and classification of our domesticated cattle, Laurer 70 



The cattle of Friuli, Mascheroni 70 



Returns at the Modena slaughterhouse, Squadrmi 70 



The exportation of cattle, Robles and Hemdndez 70 



On the effects of castration and ovariotomy upon sheep, Marshall 70 



The native sheep of Manche, Gaudot 71 



The sheep of the Roman fields, Bianchini 71 



Grazinw farms. Brown 71 



Iceland wool, Ingram 71 



Algerian wool 71 



