II CONTENTS. 



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Identification of maize in wheat flour, Carlinfanti and Salvatori 810 



Identification of horse flesh in meat and sausage, Fiehe 810 



The French official methods for analysis of wines 810 



The estimation of total tartaric acid in tartar and wine lees, Carles 811 



Solubilities and extraction values of food colors, Gudeman 811 



The volumetric measurement of coloring matter, Pelet and Garuti 811 



The detection and detern)ination of benzoic acid. Reed 811 



Methods of fat determinations in milk, Krarup 811 



Regarding foruiulas used in calculating total solids, Gobert and Bouin 811 



Specific gravity of dry substance of milk in falsification, Teichert 811 



Test of milk by means of carmin indigo, Vaudin 812 



Determinations of the water content of butter 812 



Determination of the fat of cheese by carbon tetrachlorid, Montanari 812 



Casein testing .^ 812 



The analysis and grading of creosotes, Dean and Bateman 812 



The new international method of tannin analysis, Schorlemmer and Sichling. 812 



The estimation of moisture in creosoted wood. Dean 813 



Concerning the estimation of cellulose, Councler 813 



A borer for soil samjiliug, von Hassel 813 



Sampling and sending fertilizers, etc., for free examination 813 



METEOROLOGY WATER. 



Precipitation types and their influence on the yearly periods, Schwalbe 813 



Temperature and moisture of the air at 0.2 and 2.2 meters above the soil 813 



Temperature conditions, insolation, and rainfall in middle Japan, Papellier 813 



Work of station of agricultural climatology of Juvisy, 1906, Flammarion 814 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Barry. . . 814 



Meteorology, Hamner and Christensen 814 



The climate of Buenos Aires 814 



Meteorological observations [in Egypt, 1904] 815 



The rains of the Nile basin and the Nile flood of 1906, Lyons 815 



[Rainfall of the Gold Coast of Africa], Evans 815 



The meteorological year 1906-7 in middle Europe, Krebs 815 



Meteorology, Kleinschmidt 815 



Air and water, Bleuel 815 



The construction of drain gages at Pusa, Arnott and Leather 815 



Surface water supply of California and North Pacific coast, Clapp et al 815 • 



Geology and water resources of a portion of the Missouri Valley, Condra 816 



Geology and water resources of the Repulilican River Valley, Condi'a 816 



Dew ponds 817 



A contribution to the study of the location of underground water, Rey 817 



Radioactivity of underground waters and their hydrology, Dienert and Bouquet. 817 



SOILS — FEKTILIZERS. 



Soils, Burkett 817 



Chemical analysis of soils. Brooks 818 



Moisture content and physical condition of soils, Cameron and Gallagher 818 



Action of water upon soil carljonates, Cameron and Bell 819 



Solubility of calcium carbonate in certain solutions, Cameron and Robinson.. 821 

 Solubility of calcium carljonate in aqueous solutions of potassium chlorid and 



potassium sulphate at 25°, Cameron and Robinson 821 



Solubility of certain salts present in alkali soils, Cameron et al 821 



Chemistry and physiological action of the humic acids, Robertson et al 821 



Secondary decomposition products of proteids in soils, Schreiner and Shorey. . 822 



The importance of micro-organisms in the circulation of nitrogen, Barthel 822 



Progress in legume inoculation, Kellerman and Robinson 822 



Root action and bacteria, Fletcher 822 



Role of oxidizing power of roots in soil fertility, Schreiner and Reed 822 



Products of germination affecting soil fertility, Schreiner and Sullivan 822 



Fertility of soils as affected by manures, Gardner 822 



Stable manures, Taliaferro and Patterson 824 



Agricultural-chemical work, 1 905-6, Soderbaum 824 



Cooperative fertilizer trials in Sweden, 1906, WeibuU and Nordin 826 



Cooperative fertilizer trials, 1906, Bauman and von Feilitzen 826 



Correlations between lime and magnesia in nutritive solution, Konovalov 827 



