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A method for nitrates in sewage and waters of high chlorin content, McRae. . . 521 



The interpretation of the results of chemical examination of water, Klut 521 



Determination and meteorological value of germ content of the upper air, Hahn . 521 



Swiss food book 521 



A compendium of food microscopy, Clayton 521 



New method for quantitative examination of pulverized plant products, Meyer. 521 



The detection of spoiled maize by means of the microscope, Brizi 521 



A new microchemical method for differentiating rice and wheat starch, Lenz. . 522 



Separation and estimation of glycogen and starch, Piettre 522 



Report of the chemical inspection station in Altona for 1908, Reinsch 522 



Estimation of dry matter in honey by the Zeiss immersion refractometer, Utz . . 522 



The examination of bakers' goods made with butter, Hofstadter 522 



Cryoscopy of fats, especially of butter and margarin, Pailheret 522 



Importance of the indixes of refraction for distinguishing pure butter, Hoton. . 522 



Process for the control of milk [detection of added water], Sauton 522 



On the judging of milk, Jensen 523 



A new method and apparatus for fat and dry matter in cheese, Hammerschmidt . 523 



Peanut oil in olive oil, Vasterling 523 



The use of the centrifuge in the assay of volatile oils, Moerk 523 



The determination of dry matter in wine, Paturel. 523 



A physico-chemical method of estimating ash in wine, Dutoit and Duboux 523 



The detection and estimation of oxalic acid in cocos, Girard 523 



The detection of coal-tar colors in sausage, Kickton and Koenig 523 



The detection of benzoic acid in foods, Jonescu 523 



The determination of benzoic acid in foodstuffs, Jonescu 523 



The analysis of boric acid, Mandelbaum 523 



Factors which influence the creatinin determination. Cook 524 



The determination of fatty matter in animal feces, Emmett 524 



The determination of urea in urines, Levene and Meyer 524 



The preservation of urine by thymol and refrigeration, Gill and Grindley 524 



[Miscellaneous analyses], Andouard 524 



Report of the chemical and seed control stations at Christiania, 1908, Hals .... 524 



[Miscellaneous analyses]. Watt 524 



The text of the laws 525 



METEOROLOGY WATER. 



Report of the temperatures and vapor tensions of the United States, Bigelow. . 525 



A manual for observers in climatology and evaporation, Bigelow , 525 



Bulletin of the Mount Weather Observatory 525 



A summary of meteorological observations, Ostrander 525 



Weather summary, Waldron 526 



Distribution of temperature and humidity in presence of plants, Rudovitz 526 



Dependence of yields on the chief meteorological factors, Lazarenko 526 



On the relation between climate, fertilizing, and yield, Quante 526 



Report on the investigation of river pollution and water supplies, Newlands. . 526 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



On the lime requirements of arable soils, Weibull 527 



The influence of cultivation on the water content of arable soils, Westermann. 527 



Determining the fertility and nitrate nitrogen of chernozem soils, Sazanov. . . . 528 



Soil nitrogen, Knight and Smith 528 



The growth of leguminous crops and soil inoculation, Biffen 528 



Soil bacteriological investigations, Barthel 528 



Soils in the vicinity of Savannah, Ga., Bonsteel 528 



Niter soils, Gruner 528 



The action of manure, Viner 528 



The decomposition of manure, Ehrenberg and Reichenbach 529 



Fertilizers, Prianishnikov , 529 



Report of the agricultural societies of Seeland in plant culture, 1908, Larsen. . 529 



Investigations relative to nitrogenous materials, Voorhees and Lipman 529 



The utilization of nitrogen in fertilizer materials, Voorhees and Lipman 530 



Experiments with calcium cyanamid, Kahan 530 



The toxicity of lime nitrogen and nitrogen lime, Kionka 530 



The new nitrogenous products, nitrate of lime and cyanamid, Pluvinage 530 



