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Glycogen as a means of identifying horse meat, Kickton and ]\lurdfield • 707 



Production of antisera from muscle for identification of flesh, Schmidt 707 



The detection of foreign fats in lard. Leys 707 



Quantitative estimation of the principal acids in wine, alcohol, and glycerin, 



Heiduschka and Quincke - 707 



Specific gravity of milk serum and the judging of milk, Schoorl and Con 707 



Simple test for casein in ntilk and its relation to dairy industry, Hart 707 



A new areometric method for determining fat, Timpe 707 



On the capry lie acid value of butter fat. Dons 708 



The baryta value of butter fat, Ave-Lallemant 708 



Notes on Ave-Lallemant's baryta value of l)utter fat, Fritzsche 708 



A creamery method for the determination of water in l)utter, Farrington 708 



Analyses of miscellaneous materials. Van Slyke • 709 



A new soil sampler, Stevenson 709 



New apparatus for determining specific gravity, Rebenstorff 709 



Report of progress in agricultural chemistry in 1906, Dietrich 710 



Yearbook of chemistry, edited by Meyer 710 



The chemistry of commerce, Duncan 710 



METEOROLOGY WATER. 



The origin and the purpose of the Mount Weather Observatory, Moore 710 



The methods and ajiparatus used at Mount Weather, Va., Blair 710 



The use of upper air data in weather forecasting, Henry 710 



Monthly Weather Review 710 



Meteorology [of the Transvaal], edited by Praagh . ., 711 



AVork of the meteorological station during 1906, Liistner 711 



British rainfall , 1906, Mill 711 



York rainfall records and their relation to solar cj'cles, Clark 712 



Some barometric and rainfall changes of an oscillatory nature, Lockyer 712 



On the radioactivity of atmospheric precipitation 713 



Factors which modify the climate of Victoria, McCurdy 713 



Natural conditions of Uruguay, Backhaus and Diaz 713 



The climate of Ceylon, de Silva 713 



Climate of different parts of the world, Buijsman 713 



Studies of the mineral waters of Cuba, Fernandez Benitez 713 



The initToflora of the Pragup water supply, Ruttner 713 



AVater supplies and water powers [of north-central Wisconsin], Weidman 713 



AVater supply and sewerage '. 714 



Role of septic tank in biological purification of sewage, Dzerszgowski 714 



SOILS FERTILIZERS. 



The soils of Tennessee, their composition and requirements, ISlooers 714 



More light on the origin of the Missouri River loess, Todd 715 



Agricultural geology, Schwarz 715 



Soils in relation to fertility, Cameron 716 



On potash and phosphoric acid in cultivated soils of Java, Marr 716 



Experiments on availability of pho.sphates and potash in soils. Leather 716 



Investigations on the moisture content of soils, Schneidewind Qt al 716 



Note on the movement of moisture in soils, Humphreys 716 



The movements of the soluble constituents in fine alluvial soil, Ewart 717 



Relations between soils and the assimilation of plants, Konig et al 718 



The effect of nitrate of soda on the properties of soils, Kriiger 719 



Utilization of raw phosphate in connection with green manuring, de (irazia. . 719 



Phosphoric acid requirements of red clover, and clover sickness, Gedroiz 719 



Studies on humus formation. III, Suzuki . . ^ 719 



Nitragin, iMolina and Macias 720 



Cereals and bacteria, Bottomley 720 



Plan of experimental field for bacteriological investigations, Kriiger 720 



Soil fertility, Whitney, trans, by Fabre 720 



The maintenance of fertility 720 



The loss of fertilizing value in dung 721 



Fertilizer experiments, Schneidewind et al 721 



Chilean nitrate combine, AA'^inslow '. 722 



When wheat fails, Thompson 722 



