CONTENTS. V 



DISEASES OP PLANTS. 



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Notes on plant diseases in 1908, IMorse 144 



Some bacterial diseases of plants, Sackett 145 



Notes on ])lant diseases oceurrinjj; in North Carolina, Stevens and Hall 145 



The parasitic diseases of cnltivated plants, Delacroix and INIauhlanc 146 



The enemies of fruit trees and cultivated plants, Vermorel 146 



Ear rots of corn, Burrill and Barrett 146 



A study of corn mold, Stevens and Hall 146 



Experiments upon the effect of formalin upon the germination of oats, Stevens. 147 



Influence of Bordeaux mixture on the assimilation of potato plants, Kirchner. 147 



Diseases of sugar beets, Fallada 147 



Root diseases of sugar cane, Stockdale 147 



A INIycosphitrella wilt of melons, ( irossenbacher 148 



Gooseberry mildew and gooseberry cultivation, Eriksson •. . 148 



Necrosis of the grapevine, Heddick 148 



Gall formations on apjile trees, Jaeger 149 



Fall blossoming of the apple induced by the black rot, Reed 149 



Lime-sulphur mixtures for the summer spraying of orcliards, Scott 149 



Influence of sulphur dioxid fumes on fruit and fruit rot fungi, Zschokke 149 



Yellowing of citrus trees, Muller 149 



Coffee leaf disease in the East Africa Protectorate 150 



The resistance of Coffen congenxia to Hemlleia vastatrix, Dybowski 150 



The fungus diseases of coi-onuts in the West Indies, Stockdale 150 



The Diplodia disease of the coconut palm, Fredholm 150 



The fungi of Herea brisiUensis, Fetch 150 



Spraying for fungus pests, Massee 150 



Iron arsenate and copper fungicides, Vermorel and Dantony 151 



Some points in the preparation of Bordeaux mixture, Kelhofer 151 



Increasing stability of Bordeaux mixture through addition of sugar, Kelhofer. 151 



Analyses of some fungicides, Kelhofer 151 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOCtY — ENTOMOLOOV. 



Revision of the mice of the American genus Peromyscus, Osgood 151 



The nature and efficiency of certain rat viruses, Bainbridge 152 



The bacillus of " ratin" as a means for exterminating rats, Xylander 152 



Regarding free use of cultures for destruction of rata and mice, Danysz 152 



California ground squirrels, Merriam 153 



Treatment of seed corn with deterrents against crows, Duggar and McCool. . . 153 



How to attract and protect wild birds, Hiesemann, trans, by Buchheim 153 



Eel worms, Kirk 153 



A manual of forest zoology for India, Stebbing 154 



The insect book, Westell.'. i 154 



The senses of insects, Forel, trans, by Yearsley 154 



A sport of the silkworm ( Bumbyx marl) and its hereditary behavior, Toyama. 154 



Catalogue of the diptera of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, Brfethes 154 



Danish diptera, Lundbeck 154 



Specific characters in the bee genus CoUetes, Swenk 154 



Notes and descriptions of North American parasitic hymenoptera, VII, Brues. 154 



The insect galls of Indiana, Cook 154 



Locusts in India, Lef roy 154 



Rei)ort on destruction of locusts, Honey 154 



The hop flea- beetle ( PxjjlUodes punctulatn), Chittenden 155 



Report on tobacco insects, Morgan 155 



Insects injurious to tobacco, Anastasia 156 



How to fight cranberry insects, Franklin 156 



Some injurious orchard insects, Conradi and Thomas 157 



The sulphur-lime wash, Melander and Beattie 157 



The lesser apple leaf-folder ( Peronea mimiUi), Webster 157 



Wormy apples and how to prevent them. Results of spraying in 1908, Buck. 158 



Iliiponorneuta muUnella, Saracomenos - - 159 



Investigations of the olive fly, Chapelle and Ruby -.-- 159 



Hymenopterous parasites of olive fly in Italy an(t other parasites, Silvestri . . . 159 



The olive tineid, Chapelle and Ruby 1§9 



Observations on treatment of the Eudemis, Uteau and Perpezat 159 



An enemy of grafts and cuttings in nurseries. Hoc 159 



