II CONTENTS. 



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Influence of the elementary plant foods on plant <i;rowth, A. X. Pearson 119 



Investig'ations on the nutrition of i)lants hy amids, L. Lutz 119 



The electrical conductivity of plant juices, F. De F. Heald 120 



The sensory area of the roots of land plants, F. C. Newcombe 120 



The significance of transpiration, C. R. Barnes 120 



The influence of metallic poisons on resniration, E. B. Copeland 121 



Cyanogenesis in plants, W. R. Dunstan and T. A. Henry 121 



Germination of spores of Basidiomycetous fungi, Margaret C. Ferguson 121 



Cell nuclei in some cases of parasitism or intercellular symbiosis, R. Chodat . . 121 



Root tubercles of bur clover and some other leguminous plants, G. J. Peirce. . 122 



On the development of root tubercles of leguminous plants, E. Laurent 122 



METEOKOLOCiY — CLIMATOLOCiY. 



Eclipse meteorology and allied problems, F. H. Bigelow 1 23 



Meteorological ob^^ervations, J. E. Ostrander, H. L. Bodfish, and S. C. Bacon. 123 



Reportofdciiartincntof meteorology and meteorological summary, C. H. Pettee. 123 



Meteorological oljservations, W. T. Ellis, R. Robertson, S. A. Bedford, et al 124 



Meteorological chart of the Great Lakes, A. J. Henry and N. B. Conger 124 



Wind velocity and fluctuations of water levels on Lake Erie, A. J. Henry 124 



A year of weather and trade in the United States, R. DeC. Ward 124 



Composition of Barbados rainfall 124 



Rainfall at Variety Experiment Stations, Barbados, Dec, 1899, to I\Iay, 1901 . 124 



A study on the climate of Tunis, G. (linestous 124 



Ten years' observations on influence of weather on sugar beets 124 



The gases of the atmosphere, H. F. Keller 124 



WATER SOILS. 



The significance of phosphates in natural waters, A. G. Woodman 125 



Artesian waters and irrigation, W. li. Cox 12n 



Well waters from faiMU homesteads, F. T. Shutt 125 



Some excessively saline Indian well waters, J. W. Leather 125 



The examination of water from some typhoid-polluted wells, S. Rideal 125 



The temperature of the soil, D. T. MacDougal 125 



Capillary studies and filtration of clay, L. J. Briggs and M. H. Lapham 126 



Study of solution of phosphoric acid in soil solutions, G. Paturel 127 



Methodof determining heatgeneratedwliensoilsare moistened, A. Mitscherlich. 127 



Soil survey in Salt River Vallev, T.. H. Means 127 



Soil investigations, F. T. Shutt" 127 



The sampling of soils, J. W. Leather 127 



Soil cultivation, J. H. Grisdale 128 



Summer fallows, A. Mackay 128 



FERTILIZERS. 



The cowpea and the velvet bean as fertilizers, J. F. Duggar 128 



Fertilizer experiments on moor soils, 1887-1899, H. von Feilitzen 128 



Pot experiments on action of burnt lime and marl, R. Ulbricht 129 



Dependence of yield on relation between lime and magnesia in soils, O. Loew. 129 



On the fertilizing value of peat ashes, J. Boes 129 



Nitrate of soda, potassium perchlorate, and crops, L. (irandeau 129 



A new use for potash salts in agriculture, F. Lucke 129 



Influence of soil moisture on the action of jihosphoric acid, C. von Seelhorst. . 129 



The comparative value of different phosphates, D. Prianishnikov 129 



Phosphate discovery in New Zealand 130 



Bureau of fertilizers, R. E. Rose et al 130 



Report on official inspection of commercial fertilizers, etc., C. A. Goessmann . 130 



Compilation of analyses of agricultural chemicals, etc., H. D. Haskins 130 



Inspection of fertilizers in 1901 , F. W. Morse 1 30 



Analysis of commercial fertilizers, South Carolina Station 130 



Fertilizers, F. T. Shutt 130 



FIELD CROPS. 



Field experiments with farm crops, W. Saunders et al 130 



Cooperative experiments in agriculture 133 



