II CONTENTS. 



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Report of the senior analyst of Cape of Good Hope for 1901, C. F. Juritz 837 



Chemical division, New Zealand Department of Agriculture, B. C. Aston 837 



Handbook of inorganic chemistry, O. Dammer 838 



Results of agricultural chemistry, A. TNIayer 838 



Agricultural chemistry, I. Giglioli 838 



Annual report of progress in animal chemistry, R. Andreasch and K. Spiro.. 838 



J50TAXY. 



Relation of the water content of the soil to certain plants, (1. (t. Hedgcock 838 



Influence of the awns of grasses, 8. Treyakov 839 



Influence of fluctuation of temperature on respiration of seeds, Karchevski 839 



Influence of light on res{)iration of some of the lower fungi, N. A. Maxiinow. 839 



Investigations on the respiration of plants, B. Plovtzev 840 



Irrital)ility of stigmas toward foreign pollen, W. Bui'ck 840 



The necessity of lime for seedlings, L. von Portheim 840 



The solvent power of plants for mineral jihosphates 840 



The physiological role of nicotin in the tobacco ])lant, G. AlV)o 841 



The biology of asexual reproduction of flowering plants, A. Terracciano 841 



Root tubercles of Ikitlsra cavnnhhia, A. Trotter 841 



Green hemiparasites, E. Heinricher . 841 



The seed fungus of the darnel, E. M. Freeman 842 



ZOOLOGY. 



Judging the benefits and injuries by insectivorous birds, K. Ei'kstein 842 



Birds and insects in relation to agrii'ulture, E. H. Forbush 842 



Partial bibliography of economic relations of NorUi American birds, C. M. 



Weed 842 



Measures to be adopted for bird protection in Egypt, AV. I. Bey 842 



Birds of Ne' • Zealand, D. V. Lucas ." 842 



Destroying sparrows 842 



Woodpeckers 843 



The quest of ra1)bit extermination and the (juestiou of disease 843 



The plague of rats, T. Skschivan 843 



A bacillus pathogenic for the house rat, C. Toyama 843 



Mouse and rat plague, E. Wiener 843 



Infection with Trypanosoma, T. von Wasielewski 843 



Annual report of the South Australian Zoological and Acclimatization Society. 843 



Phytopathological o])servations near Hamburg, L. Reh 843 



Zoological record, I). Sharp 844 



Index zoologicus, C. 0. Waterhouse 844 



Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology, C. W. Stiles and A. Hassall . 844 

 Guide for collecting, preserving, and packing animals for the zoological museum 



in Berlin, M.'ibius 844 



Game laws for 1902, T. S. Palmer and H. W. Olds 844 



METEORor-OCiV. 



Monthly Weather Review, Vol. XXX, Nos. 10-12 844 



Some peculiarities in frost formation over the coast region of South Carolina, 



L. N. Jesunofsky 845 



Cycles of prejipitation, L. H. Murdoch 845 



Meteorology, J. B. Harrison 845 



The climatology of Africa, E. G. Ravenstein et al 846 



Rainfall and temperature at Pretoria, J. L. Soutter 846 



Meteorological report of the State of Florida for 1901, A. J. Mitchell 846 



Meteorological observations, W. B. Alwood 846 



Meteorological observations on Ben Nevis, A. Buchan et al 846 



Meteorological observations at the experiment station of Breslau, B. Schulze. 846 

 Seasonal variation of the atmospheric temperature of the British Isles and its 



relation to wind direction, W. N. Shaw aud R. W. Cohen 846 



Effect of sea temperature upon the seasonal variation of air temperature of the 



British Isles, W. N. Shaw '.-- 846 



Temperature of atmosphere and causes of glacial periods, H. N. Dickson 847 



Systematic exploration of atmosphere at sea by means of kites, A. L. Rotch . . 847 



