H CONTENTS. 



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Estimation of minute amounts of arsenic in foods, Clark and Woodman 613 



Honej^ and its analysis, Muttelet 613 



Examination of marmalades and milk chocolates, Hartel 613 



Cider vinegar, Mott 613 



The detection of benzoic acid in coffee extract, Lythgoe and Marsh 613 



Spirit of nitrous ether, Hanson and Burke 614 



Use of saponin for homogenizing samples of milk to be examined, Frouin 614 



A new method for determining fat and salt in butter, Shaw 614 



The index of refraction of the mixed acids of fatty oils, Smith 614 



Coconut fat with a high iodin number, Vaubel 615 



Abnormal beeswax, Buchner 615 



Separation of phosphorus compounds of feedstuffs, Fingerling and Hecking 615 



The determination of moisture content of beet seeds, Plahn 615 



A chemical-technical vade mecum for sugar refineries, Groger 615 



The carbohydrate constituents of Para rubber. Pickles and Whitfeild 615 



Helianthus tubers for alcohol production, von H6rics-T6th and von Osztrdvszky 616 



Progress of chemistry for 1911, edited by Cain and Greenaway 616 



Proceedings of Official Agricultural Chemists, edited by WUey and Pierce 616 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



Monthly Weather Review 616 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Angler. . . 617 



Report of director of the [Philippine] Weather Bureau for 1908, Algu6 617 



Influence of climatic conditions on agricultural industry of Germany, Schnider . 617 



The consideration of snow, Church, jr 617 



Drinking-water supply of primitive people, Haberlandt 617 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Soils of the eastern United States and their use, XXXVIII-XL, Bonsteel 617 



The soils of Tripoli, Vinassa de Regny 618 



Researches on properties of peat soils of Picardy, Coquid^ 619 



Black soils (chernozem), Kossovich 619 



Gray sand and ortstein, Niklas 619 



The chemical composition of red saline clay, Marcus and Biltz 619 



A peculiarity of the mole, Gmelin 619 



The cause of the absorbent power of soils, Pratolongo 619 



A method of retaining water in the soil, Krebs 619 



The cooperation of organisms in clay formation, Rohland 619 



The flocculating power of some soluble salts on clay, Masoni 620 



Biochemical etuclies on soils subjected to dry heat, Seaver and Clark 620 



Bacterial slimes in soil , Greig-Smith 620 



The determination of Rhizobia in the soil, Greig-Smith 620 



The role of Streptothrix in the soil, Fousek 620 



The agricere and the bacterio toxins of the soil, Greig-Smith 621 



Beneficial effect of creatinin and creatin on growth, Skinner 621 



Partial sterilization of soil, McBride 621 



Partial sterilization of soil for greenhouses, Russell and Petherbridge 621 



Clearing heavy lands as adapted to Montaja and Panendjoan, Van Lennep 621 



Reclamation of crawfish lands, Garrison 621 



Sponge spicules in swamp soils, Da\Ts 622 



Sponge spicules in certain soils, Davis 622 



Present status of fertilizer investigations, Cameron 622 



Some secondary actions of manures upon the soil, Hall 622 



A biological method of preser\'ing manure, Barthel and Rhodin 623 



Relations between ash constituents of various fertilized plants, Leoncini 623 



Utilization of atmospheric nitrogen, Norton 623 



The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by the use of aluminum nitrid, Marre 624 



Behavior of calcium cyanamid under influence of soils and colloids, Henschel. 624 



Further investigations on lime nitrogen, Milo 625 



Lime nitrogen as regards its transformation in the soil, Milo 625 



New observations on the behavior of nitrate in cultivated soil, Vogel 626 



Influence of organic substances on nitrogenous compounds, Gerlach and Densch 626 



The action of lime nitrogen and calcium nitrate in the field, Gerlach 626 



The phosphate deposits of the United States, Waggaman - 627 



Composition of Palestine phosphates and their fluorin content, Danelli 627 



The utilization of the phosphates of central Russia 627 



