EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Chief, Office of Experiment Stations. 

 Assistant Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITOBIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 



Meteorology. Soils, and Fertilizers {S^'w." TrtSjngeb. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology l^" ^' ^l^^' ^^' ^' 



Field crops {J: KI^kS^. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker, D. V. M. 



Foods and Human Nutrition {g; ^- L^//™^^'' ^^' ^- ^- ^c 

 Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming {^; Sf^af^^. 



Veterinary Medicine {g;-^^;^^^™- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Meeritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 36, NO. 1. 



Editorial notes: _ Page. 

 The New York meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 



of Science 1 



The adjustment of science to practice 2 



Qualities and organization of research and experiment 5 



Coordination in scientific effort 7 



Recent work in agricultural science 12 



Notes 98 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — ^agrotechny. 



Studies in the physical chemistry of essential oils 12 



Numerical relations among the rotatory powers of the compound sugars, Hudson. 12 



Isomeric alpha and beta hexacetates of a-glucoheptose, Hudson and Yanovsky . 12 



o-crotonic acid, a soil constituent, Walters and Wise 12 



Biochemical changes in cotton seed in storage. Rather 12 



Experiments upon the amylase of As'pcrgilln.s oryzx, Sherman and Tanberg 13 



Enzyms of the blood in the albumin and globulin fractions of the serum, Satta. . 13 



A nonspattering wash bottle, Clapp 13 



Researches on quinazolins, XXXlII, Bogert and Scatchard 13 



Kjeldahl modification for nitro substitution compounds. Cope 14 



Apparatus for Kjeldahl determinations, Randall .,,.,.,.,.... 14 



