1917] CONTENTS. V 



Page. 



A new air-conditioning apparatus, Dean and Naboirra 152 



Effects of nicotin as an insecticide, Mclndoo 152 



Insects injurious to alfalfa, Dean 152 



Insects attacking onions, Ballou 152 



The more important greenhouse insects, Weiss 152 



The animal parasites of man, Fantham, Stephens, and Theobald 152 



New Jersey's insects, Weiss 152 



Reports of the government entomologist, 1915 and 1916, Mason 153 



Some new entomogenous fungi in St. Vincent, Nowell 153 



The lesser migratoiy locust {Melanoplus atlanis), Herrick and Hadley, jr 153 



The sugar-beet thrips. White 153 



The bedbug, Marlatt 153 



The chinch bug outbreak of 1910 to 1915, Forbes 153 



The false chinch bug and measures for controlling it, Milliken 154 



Are scales becoming resistant to fumigation? Quayle 154 



Root louse control, Hansen 154 



The gi'ape leaf-folder, Strauss 155 



Tinea cloacella as a mushroom pest, Krausse 156 



The destruction of fly larvce in horse manure. Cook and Hutchison 156 



Response of the house fly to ammonia and otlier substances, Richardson 156 



Flies and their relation to diarrhea and dysentery, Morison and Keyworth 156 



[Report of the] department of entomology, Fernald 156 



The soy bean stem borer, Dutt 157 



Rhynchophora or wee\ ils of northeastern America, Blatchley and Leng 157 



The Cottonwood borer, Milliken 157 



The southern corn billbug, Metcalf 157 



The banana weevil, Ballou 158 



Productive bee keeping, Pellett 158 



Bees and how to keep them, Sladen 158 



Fifteenth report of Illinois State Beekeepers' Association, compiled by Stone. . 158 



Rocky Mountain spotted fever. — Laboratory investigations of the virus, Fricks . 158 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



The nutritive properties of corn, Hogan 158 



The nutritive value of yeast, polished rice, and white bread. Funk et al 158 



Rye flour and rye bread, Braun 159 



Some tests of flour made from Egyptian wheats, Hughes 159 



[Inspection of shellfish] 159 



Studies on growth. — III, Lard and butter fat in growth, Funk and Macallum. . 160 



Studies on growth. — IV, Action of yeast fractions. Funk and Macallum 160 



Isolation of a growth-producing substance from sheep pancreas, Eddy 160 



Study of dietary conditions bearing on growth in rats, Funk and Poklop 161 



Dietetic deficiency, Green 161 



Studies in creatin metabolism, I-IV, Underbill and Baumann 161 



Output of lu'inary constituents as determined by diet. Underbill and Bogert. . 162 



Volume of urine in young healthy adults on constant diet, Addis and Watanabe. 163 



The rate of urea excretion, I, Addis and Watanabe 163 



The rate of urea excretion, II, Addis and Watanabe 163 



Blood fat and sugar content of dogs given hydrazin, L^nderhill and Baumann. . 164 



The toxicity of carotin, Wells and Hedenburg 164 



Clinical calorimetry, XVIII, Gephart et all 164 



ANIiI,\L PRODUCTION. 



Meat situation in United States. — V, Methods and cost of marketing, Hall et al . 164 



The marketing of live stock, Gaumnitz 166 



On the general theorjr of miiltiple contingency, Pearson 166 



Multiple fi-equency distributions with skew regression, Isserlis 166 



Probable eiTor of coefiicient of contingency Young and Pearson 166 



Novel properties of partial and multiple correlation coefficients, Pearson 166 



Application of "goodness of fit " tables, Pearson 166 



The ' ' best " values of the constants in frequency distributions, Smith 167 



Berseem as a forage plant, Piot 167 



Silos and silage. Sheets 167 



Pea-cannery refuse, Rosby 167 



