IT * CONTENTS 



Pago. 



The hydrolysis of edistin, E. Abderhalden 1044 



The hydrolysis of zeiu by hydrochloric acid, L. Langstein 1044 



Tests and reagents, chemical and microscopical, A. I. Cohn 1045 



Report of the chemists, C. H. Jones and B. O. White 1045 



Report on the progress of physical chemistry and physics, M. Rudolphi 1045 



Convention of Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1902 1045 



BOTANY. 



Reserve carbohydrates in ligneous plants, Leclerc du Sablon 1045 



A study of the reserve carbohydrates of some palms, E. Lienard 1045 



Formation of albumen by the higher i)lants in the dark, I. Shulov 1046 



Influence of organic materials on the development of plants, J. Laurent 1046 



TJie germination of pollen in the presence of stigmas, P. P. Richer 1046 



CJanadian experiments with Nitragin, F. T. Shutt and A. T. Charron 1047 



Photosynthesis without living plants, L. Macchiati 1047 



Methods in plant physiology, H. S. Reed 1047 



Phyllobiology, A. Hansgirg 1047 



Reports of Danish exj^eriment stations for plant culture during 1900 and 1901. 1047 



FERMENTATION — BACTERIOLOGY. 



Further studies on nitrogen-assimilating bacteria, Cerlach and Vogel 1048 



Nitrogen assimilation ])y bacteria without symbiosis, J. Vogel 1048 



Specific iden'-jty of tu])erc]e bacteria of the Leguniinoste, H. Buhlert 1048 



A contril)ution to the Alinit question, S. Severin 1049 



Bacteria in the soil, B. H. Buxton 1049 



Photobacteria in chlorophyll investigations, M. W. Beijerinck 1049 



Fseudovionas fragariic, a bacterium causing a strawberry-Hke odor, T. (inibcr. 1049 



Bacterial flora of the acid fermentation of some foods, R. Weiss 1049 



Luminous bacteria, J. E. Barnard and A. Macfadyen 1049 



Concerning the mechanism of agglutination, R. G. Smith 1049 



International catalogue of scientiflc literature. R — Bacteriology 1049 



The i>ractice of industrial fermentation, E. Ozard 1050 



Utilization of micro-organisms in the arts, F. Lafar and C. T. C. Salter 1050 



The general theory of the action of diastases, V. Henri 1050 



Proteolytic enzyms in plants, S. H. Vines 1051 



The growth and reproduction of Amylotnyca^ rouxil, J. Turquet 1051 



ZOOLOGY. 



Biological reconnoissance in the vicinity of Flathead Lake, M. J. Elrod 1052 



Annual report of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, A. F,. Brown 1052 



The flame-breasted robin [Petrceca phsenicea), C. French 1052 



The house sparrow, J. Percival 1052 



Contributions to the ornithology of Sao Paulo, H. von Ihering 1052 



Necessity of a federal game law and the protection of birds, A. von Ihering 1052 



Destroying prairie dogs and pocket gophers, D. E. Lantz 1052 



Myriapods in the Museum of Sao Paulo,- H. W. BriJlemann 1052 



METEOROLOGY CLIMATOLOGY. 



Report on international cloud observations, H. H. llildel^randsson 1053 



The climate of the Bermuda Islands, A. E. Verrill 1053 



IMeteorological observations for 1902 1 054 



The weather during the agricultural year 1901-2 1054 



Crops of Scotland for 1902, and meteorology of the year, A. Buchan 1054 



Variations in rainfall at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, C. T. JNIusson 1054 



Analysis of red lain of February 22, R. A. Earp 1054 



AIR WATER so 1 LS. 



On the proportion of liydrogen in atmospheric air, A. Leduc 1055 



Proportion of atmospheric hydrogen, A. Gautier ^ 1055 



Evaporation, R. E. Trimble ~. 1055 



