EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. \Y. ALLEN, Pn. I)., Assistant Director. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — The Editor and II. W. Lawson. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers and Soils (including methods of analysis), and Agricultural 



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Entomology and Veterinary Science — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D 

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI, NO. 



Editorial notes: Page. 

 Winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 



Science 421 



Some advantages of scientific gatherings to the investigator 422 



Retirement of Dr. W. C. Stubbs 425 



Convention of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 



Stations, E. W. Allen 426 



Recent work in agricultural science 439 



Notes 519 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The chemistry of proteids, 0. Cohnheim 430 



The chemistry of wheat gluten, G. G. Nasmith 43!) 



Concerning isocreatin and its identity with creatin, E. Poulsson 430 



Estimation of nuclein bases in beet juice, H. W. Bresler 439 



Preparation of organic bases from plant juices and extracts, E. Schulze 4.'!!t 



Gravimetric determination of phosphoric acid, J. Sebelien 439 



Estimation of potassium, D. Sidersky 439 



The detection of corn meal in bread, D. Ottolenghi 439 



Determination of boric acid in cider, fruits, etc., A. H. Allen and A. R. Tankard. 440 



Gottlieb and Adams methods of fat determination, L. F. Rosengren 440 



On the determination of fat in cheese, M. Siegfeld 440 



Micro-chemical detects >n of sugars, E. Senft 440 



The hydrolytic products of sugar-cane fiber, C. A. Browne, jr 440 



Formation of honey, and its relation to the polariseope, W. A. Selser 441 



Determining the alcohol content of wine, P. N. Raikow and P. Schtarbanow. . 441 



The fatty oil of strawberries, I. Aparin 441 



Investigations of linseed oil and methods of protection of wood and iron Ill 



Extract from flowers of iris as a sensitive indicator, A. Ossendovski 441 



Occurrence of aluminum in vegetable products, etc., C. F. Langworthy and 



P. T. Austen 441 



Formaldehyde in products of combustion and smoke, A. Trillat 442 



Spectro-photometrie determination of carbon nionoxid, L. de Saint-Martin. . . 442 



An evaporiineter, A. Mitscherlich 442 



