112 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Progress in agricultural chemistry for tlie second half of the year 1908 

 {Chem. Ztschr., S {lUO!)), Ao. J, pp. .',!)-■', I ) .—This is a review of the literature 

 of tbe more important results of investigations in agricultural chemistry. 



International catalogue of scientific literature. D— Chemistry {Internat. 

 Cat. Sci. Lit., 5 (IVOS), pp. VIII +1202). —This is the fifth annual issue of this 

 catalogue (E. S. R., 18, p. 711). The literature indexed is chiefly that of 100."), 

 but some references to literature published from 1901-1904 are included. 



International catalogue of scientific literature. D— Chemistry {Intmiat. 

 Cat. Sci. Lit., 6 {l!)Oa), /i]). V II 1+ 107 S).— This is the sixth ai'-'ual issue of this 

 catalogue. 



Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Association of 

 Official Agricultural Chemists, held at Washington, D. C, November 12-16, 

 1908, edited by H. W. Wiley {U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. Chem. Bui. 122, pp. 

 2Ji8, flgn. 6). — This is the official report of the proceedings of the convention. 

 A summarized account of the meeting has been previously given (E. S. R., 20, 

 p. 395), and a circular of the Bureau containing extracts from the proceedings 

 noted (E. S. R., 20, p. 911). 



METEOROLOGY— WATER. 



Monthly Weather Review (Mo. Weather Rev., S6 (1908), No. 13, pp. X 

 +Jf35-Ji78, figs. .'/, charts 6). — This summary "is based essentially upon data 

 received from about 200 regular Weather Bureau stations, 33 regular Canadian 

 stations, and from such climatological stations as have forwarded their annual 

 summaries in time." It also includes the annual report of the Chief of the 

 Weather Bureau reprinted from the report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 

 1908 (see p. 192), and the following special articles: Atmospheric Influences 

 Causing Movements of the Soil ; Studies on the Thenomeua of the Evaporation 

 of Water over Lakes and Reservoirs (illus.), by F. H. Bigelow (see p. 115) ; 

 The Climate of the Historic Past (illus.), by E. Huntington; Weather Bureau 

 Men as Educators; The Diurnal Variation of the Rainfall at Kingston, Ja- 

 maica, by M. Hall ; and The Teacher and the Student. 



" Compared with the normal the barometric pressure for the year 1908 was 

 in excess by small amounts over all portions of the United States, except a small 

 area from Michigan westward to the valley of the Red River of the North, 

 and in extreme eastern New England. . . . 



" The average temperature . . . was above the normal in all districts of the 

 United States and Canada, except over the Rocky Mountain and southern por- 

 tion of the Plateau districts, and along the immediate Pacific coast. . . . 



" The annual precipitation . . . was less than the usual amount over all 

 districts east of the Mississippi, except along the eastern slopes of the Appa- 

 lachian Mountains from northern Virginia to western South Carolina, over the 

 greater portions of the lower elevations of Virginia and North Carolina, and 

 along the eastern and southern coasts of Florida. Precipitation was al^o below 

 the normal over the greater portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, in the 

 southern Rocky Mountain region, and generally over the Plateau and Pacific 

 coast States. From the Mississippi River westward to the Rocky Mountain 

 districts, except in the portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and the southern 

 Rocky Mountain region mentioned above, the precipitation for the year was 

 above the normal. At points in southern Kansas, central Oklahoma, and 

 northern Texas the excess ranged from 10 to 20 in. 



'■ The most pronounced feature of the weather of the year 1908 was the re- 

 markably severe and long-continued drought during the late summer and early 

 fall months over the greater part of the Ohio Valley and Lake region, portions 



