EXPERIMENT STATION Rr:CORD, 



KDIIKD l'.Y 



A. (J. TRUK, Ph. ]).. Director. 



AND 



E. W. Ali.EX, Pii. D., Assistiint Dircc^tor — Choniiatry, Dairy Fiiriiiiiin-, and Dairying. 

 W. H. ]>KAL — Meteoroloyy. Fertilizers (including- methods oC analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural I'ngineering. 

 Walter H. Evans, I'm. D.— Botany and Diseases of Plants. 



F. II. Hall— Field Crops. 



F. C. Kenyon, Pii. D.— Entomology aud Yeterinary Science. 

 C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. — Foods and Animal Production. 



With the co()peration of tbo scientific divisions of the Department and the Abstract 

 Committee of the Association of Otiticial Agricultural Chemists. 



C(3NTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. 9. 



Page. 



Editorial note: Emil a'ou Woltf and Georges Ville 739 



Recent work in agricultural sciencts 7-11 



Notes - 838 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The determination of nitrogen in mixtures of nitrates, especiall.v in guano, 



V. Schenke 711 



Studies of the difterent methods for determining cellulose, 11. Suringar and 



B. Tollens 741 



BOTANY. 



On the absorption and rejection of water by seed, H. Con pin 743 



The action of salts on the form and structure of plants, C. Dassonville 744 



The influence of fruit bearing on the development of mechanical tissue in some 



fruit trees, A. J. Pieters 745 



Respiration of wounded plants, II. M. Richards 746 



The influence of continued electric currents on the decomposition of carbon 



dioxid in aquatic plants, M. Thouvenin 747 



Miscellaneous notes and descriptions of new species 748 



Tiie genus Ixopliorus, F. Eamson-Scribner 748 



Native and introduced species of the genera Hordenm and Agropyrum, F. 



Lamson-Scribner and J. G. Smith 749 



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