n CONTENTS 



Official methods for the examination of chocolate and c oa 207 



Detection of caramel in fermented beverages, Pasquero and Cappa 207 



Analysis of candied lemon peel, Hartel and Kirchner 208 



Technical drug studies by the division of drugs 208 



Biochemistry of colostrum, Engel 208 



Investigations in regard to the hemolytic power of cow's colostrum, Kobele. . . 208 



Note on the gravimetric estimation of phosphorus in milk, Miller 208 



Comparison of methods of sampling cream for testing, Lee and Hepburn 203 



The aldehyde figure of butter, Miller 209 



Procedure for determining the sugar content of bagasse, Hazewinkel et al 210 



The changes which take place in sugar beets during storage, Friedl 210 



Comparative influence of water and vinasse upon the pulp residues, Ammann. . 210 



The desiccation of potatoes and the uses of the product, Moore 210 



Forest chemistry, 1909-10, Singh 210 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



The climate of Ohio, Smith 211 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Hallowell. 211 



The weath0jr of 1911 at the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College, "Wakerley . . . 211 



Report of the station of agiicultural climatology of Juvisy, 1910, Flammarion. . 211 



Weather forecasts for 1912 in Russia, Sa\izkii 212 



Our weather, Fowler and Marriott 212 



Smoke. — A study of town air, Cohen and Ruston 212 



Combined nitrogen in rain, Gimingham 212 



Ponds in agiicultural districts, Martin 212 



Sewage disposal. Fuller 212 



Practical methods of sewage disposal, Ogden and Cleveland 213 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Present problems in soil physics as related to plant activities, Li^dngston 214 



The temperature of the soil under different conditions, Dunlop 214 



Studies of the heat conducti\dty of some soil tj^es, Karsten 215 



Suspensions and the phenomena of absorption, An-henius 215 



The plant and the salts of the soil, Tulaikov 215 



The biological absorption of phosphoric acid in the soil, Dushechkin 216 



The origin of loess, Henning 216 



Soil fertility, Hopkins 216 



Cooperative study of Rhode Island soil deficiencies, Wheeler et al 216 



Soil mapping and soil analyses, Hissink 216 



Investigations on pine-covered sand dune soils, Vogel 217 



Studies of the tillal^le soils of Roumania, Murgoci 217 



The composition of sandy soils of Tripoli, Menozzi 217 



Some cotton soils of the Nyasaland and Uganda protectorates 217 



The pinery and orchard soils of the Bathurst Di\ision, Cape Province, Lewis. . 217 



[Analyses and determinations of moisture of Queensland soils], Briinnich 217 



Fertilizers and crops, Van Slyke 218 



Commercial lertihzers and agriculture of tlie Alps, Kerler 218 



Calcium cyanamid as compared vath nitrogenous fertilizers. Da Silva 218 



The constitution of basic slag, Hartleb 218 



The influence of lime on cultivated soil 218 



The trade in cotton-seed meal, Jenkins 219 



Experiments with gas purification residue, von Feilitzen 219 



Tannery refuse as a fertilizer, Healy 219 



Refuse disposal, Toronto, Ont 219 



Analyses of fertilizers, fall season, 1911, Kilgore et al 219 



Tabulated analyses of commercial fertilizers, Tomlinson 219 



Analj'ses of licensed commercial fertilizers, 1912, Woll 219 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Plant physiology, Palladin 219 



New findings in germination studies with Chloris ciliata, Gassner 219 



Temperature and seed germination, Lehmann 220 



The effect of heat on seedjin a state of anesthesia, Apsit and Gain 220 



