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Saccharic! and uoiisaccliarid constituents of sugar beets, Likliovitzer 509 



Analyses of sugar in sugarhouses and refineries, Fribourg 509 



Polarimetric estimation of sugars in honey, Fiehe 509 



The detection of bleached flours, Alway and Gortner 509 



The analysis of ice cream, Howard 509 



Estimation of boric acid and borates in food stuffs. Manning and Lang__ 509 



Salting out cocoa fat soai)S as a means of identifying cocoa fat, Cohn 509 



Influence of oxygen and sunlight on olive oil, Ryan and Marshall 509 



Determination of constituents of smelter smoke, Harkins and Swain 510 



Chemical novelties for 1907, Poulenc 510 



METEOROLOGY WATER. 



Keport of the meteorological committee, Great Britain 510 



Meteorological report, Smith , 511 



Meteorology, Hart 511 



[Meteorological records, Fiji Islands, 1875-190G] 511 



On the meteorology of th? Nile Valley, Lyons 511 



'The cold spring of 1907. Henry 511 



Cyclonic distribution of precipitation. Fdden 512 



Influence of prec-ipitation on crops, Schneidewind et al 512 



Forests and rainfall and influence of wind on measurements, Schubert- _ 512 



Man's influence on climate, Sim 512 



Protection of buildings from lightning, Sawyer and Smith 512 



River discharge, Hoyt and Grover : 512 



The streams of the dry region of Northern Brazil, Derby 513 



The utilization of the artesian resources of New South Wales, Allan 513 



The water of the Oder Valley, Luedecke 513 



Clean water and how to get it, Hazen 513 



The disinfection of sewage effluents. Kellerman et al 513 



Biological purification by contact and percolating beds, Calmette 514 



SOILS FERTILIZERS. 



Origin and classification of cultivated soils. Fernandez 514 



Bibliography of the geology of Connecticut, (xi-egory 514 



Notes on the geology of the Winnfield sheet. Harris 514 



Maryland Geological Survey. Calvert County : 514 



Maryland Geological Survey, St. ^lary County 514 



Composition of soils from the eastern counties, England, Middleton 514 



Description of soil geology of Ireland, with notes on climate, Kilroe 515 



Studies on Swedish soils, Weibull . 515 



Composition of Egyptian soils. Pellet and Roche 515 



The distribution of carbonates on the second, steppe, Alway and McDole 516 



The so-called alkali spots of the younger drift sheets, Willcox 516 



The salt content of polders flooded with sea water, Hissink 516 



Reference of soils to fruit requirement.s, Bradley 516 



Wire-basket method of testing soils, Aston 516 



Pot experiments with fertilizers,* Aston 516 



Soil fertility 516 



Changes in peat soils under fertilization, Sjollema 516 



Applicability to India of Italian method of utilizing silt. Buck 517 



The hygroscoi)ic water of the soil, Speranski and ICrasheninuikov 517 



Observations on temperature variations in soils, Grohmann 517 



A review of investigations in soil bacteriology, Voorhees and Lipman 517 



Bacterial content of air and soils of Antarctic region. Ekelof 518 



Experiments on the formation of nitric acid in soils, Murmann 518 



The fixation of nitrogen by the nodule former, Greig-Smith 518 



Biology of nitrogen-fixing micro-organisms. Severin and Krzemieniewski__ 519 



The organisms which produce the root tubercles, de Rossi 519 



The root bacteria of the Leguminos?e, Rodella 519 



Experiments on accumulation of nitrogen in forest soils, Grandeau 520 



Fixation of free nitrogen, nitrification, etc 520 



On the assimilation of free nitrogen, Dumont 520 



A possible mission of ferments (micro-organisms) in the soil, Sedgwick__ 520 



Treatment of soils with carbon bisulphid, Heinze 520 



