IV CONTENTS. 



I'&ge. 



The waning hardwood supply and the .Vppalacliian forests, Hall 650 



The life history of the beech, Boulger (jol 



Second progress report on the strength of structural timber, liatt 651 



Use of deacl timber in the National forests, Hodson 651 



The preservative treatment of fence posts, Weiss 652 



New wood preservative, Van Hee 652 



Camphor industry, Arnold 653 



Caoutchouc in French West Africa, Henry 653 



A journey through guayule land, Pearson 653 



Damaged rubber trees renewing themselves, Ryder 653 



Cooperative forestry work for 1908, Green and Goddard 654 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Report of assistant plant pathologist, Fawcett 654 



Report of the horticulturist [on plant diseases], Warren and Voorhees. 654 



Some important plant diseases of Washington, Lawrence 655 



Two interesting apple fungi, Stevens 656 



Bitter rot of apples, Ijotanical investigations, Burrill : 656 



Bitter rot of apples, horticultural investigations, Blair 657 



California peach blight, Smith et al 657 



The grape powdery mildew and the injury it causes, Jeria 657 



Diseases of coffee trees, Delacroix 657 



The fir disease in the Jura f(jrests, Henry 657 



The brown rot of the lemon. Smith et al 658 



A short review of parasitic fungi of FIciik elaslica, Koorders 658 



The chrysanthemum ray blight, Stevens 658 



A new chrysanthemum disease, Salmon _ 659 



Concerning the Septoria on chrysanthemums, Magnus 659 



A study of diseases of Pelargonium, ChifHot 659 



Action of salts of copper in treatment of plant diseases, Lafon .*. 659 



KCONOMIC ZOOL( KiV ENTOMOI.CUi V. 



An economic study of field mice, Lantz \ . . 659 



Means of controlling mice, Raebiger 660 



Some notes on the food of birds, Hooper : 660 



Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology, Stiles and Hassall 660 



Report of the entomologist, Berger 660 



Report of the entomologist, Smith 661 



Entomological notes 661 



[ Entomological n( ites] ■. 661 



Color varieties of Locustidie, Knab 661 



The larch shoot moth. Grain weevils, MacDougall 661 



A revision of the American components of the Tentyriina', Casey 661 



C'eoniis punctirentris and means of combating it, Pospyelov 662 



Note on the boll worm in the Punjab in 1905 and 1906, Renouf 662 



The potato plant louse, Patch 662 



The codling moth, Woglum 662 



Petroleum emulsion for the San Jose scale, Jarvis 662 



Fruit fly 663 



Fumigation for the white fly, Warren . . 663 



New experience with the olive fly, Berlese 663 



The effect of cold on borers in coffee trees, Boutan 663 



Effect of low temperatures on almond pests, De Loverdo 663 



Insects injurious to timber, Grandeau 663 



The generations of bark beetles, Borgmann 664 



Tomiats polp(/raphus in Lorraine, Henry 664 



Combating Ennomos litnraria, Schmidt 664 



The .structure, development, and bionomics of the house fly, Hewitt 664 



Report of the mpsiiuito investigations in ]90(i, Sinitii, Seal, and Grosslteck. . . . 664 



North American fever tick, with notes on otiier species, Hunter and Hooker. . 664 



Presence of mites in long bones of wing of birds, Troue.«.«art 665 



Uses of insects as food, medicines, or in manufactures, Berensberg 665 



Plant maladies and their control, Starnes and Monroe 665 



