EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 

 A. C. TRUE, Ph. D., Director, 



AND 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D., Assistant Director — Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying. 

 W. H. Beal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (including methods of analysis), .Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

 Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

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



F. C. Kenyon, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 R. A. Emerson — Horticulture. 



J. I. Schulte — Field Crops. 



With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department and the Abstract 

 Committee of the Association id' Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. IX, No. 9. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The new huilding of the College of Agriculture of the Ohio State Uni- 



A'ersity 801 



Government investigations in Alaska 803 



Recent work in agricultural science 805 



Notes 900 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Report of the chemical control station at Christiania, Norway, 1896, I". H. 



Werenskiold. 805 



Spontaneous combustion of hay, G. C. Watson 807 



The soluble starches, W. Syniewski 806 



Chemical department, R. De Roode 807 



Changes in and additions to methods of analysis adopted at the 13th and 14th 



annual meetings of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, H. W. 



Wiley 808 



Miscellaneous analyses, J. L. Hills, B. O. White, and C. H. Jones 808 



BOTANY. 



Contributions to the life history of Amphicarpaa monoica, Adeline F. Schively. 809 



A chemico-physiological study of Spirogyra nifida, Mary E. Pennington 809 



On the structure and pollination of the flowers of Eupatorium spp., Laura B. 



Cross ! 809 



The correlation of growth under the influence of injuries, C. O. Townsend 810 



Periodicity of root pressure, M. B. Thomas 810 



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