II CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Hal lien's reaction for cotton-seed oil, and some American lards, P. Soltsien ... 223 



The optical method of examining fats and waxes, G. Marpmann 223 



The detection of archil in wine, R. Truchon 223 



The valuation of commercial solutions of lactic acid, F. Jean 223 



Notes on the proximate analj'sis of cloves, A. McGill 223 



Chemical action of Bacillus coli communis on carbohydrates, etc., A. Harden . . 223 



Micro-chemical analysis, H. Behrens 224 



Seventeenth annual convention of Association of Official Agricultural Chemists . 224 



Grasses — I, L. H. Pammel, J. B. Weems, and F. Lamson-Scribner 224 



Our native pasture plants, F. Lamson-8cril)ner 224 



Some Arizona grasses, E. D. Merrill 224 



Aristida purpurea and its allies, E. D. Merrill 224 



Oil-yielding plants cultivated in Egypt, G. Bonaparte 224 



Geology and l^otany of Upper Peninsula Experiment Station, C. F. Wheeler . . 224 



Descriptions and ilKistrations of new species of IVIicromycetes, F. Tassi 224 



Edible mushrooms of North Carolina, C. W. Hyams 225 



The sexual reproduction of fungi, P. A. Dangeard 225 



On the evaporation of water by plants, F. Yanovchik 225 



On the presence of invertin or sucrose in grapes, V. Martinand 225 



A diastase which inverts saccharose in white wines, B. Fallot and L. Michon. . 225 



On the exosmosis of diastases of plants, J. Laurent 225 



On the question of formation of all)uminoids l)y plants in darkness, M. Iwanoff . 226 

 Influence of various inoculating materials on tubercle formation and yield of 



leguminous i^lants, F. Nobl^e and L. Hiltner 226 



Physiological and anatomical investigations of the cuscutas, M. Miranda 226 



Botanical investigations and vegetable physiological experiments, F. Schleichert 226 



List of publications of the Division of Botany, F. V. Coville 226 



ZOOLOGY. 



Birds useful to agriculture, E. H. Forbush 226 



Birds as protectors of woodlands, E. H. Forbush 226 



How birds affect the orchard, F. E. L. Beal : 227 



The food of nestling birds, S. D. Judd 227 



The relationship of crows to agriculture, J. Jablonowski 227 



Protection of birds and game, T. S. Palmer 227 



Directions for the destruction of prairie dogs, C. H. Merriani 227 



Rabbit destruction 227 



METEOROLOGY. 



Amplification of weather forecasts, A. J. Henry 227 



Hot waves: Conditions which produce them, and effect on agriculture, 



A. T. Burrows - - 227 



Meteorological observations, W. T. Ellis, R. Robertson, S. A. Bedford, et al 228 



Report of the mete( )r( )logist, W. H. Bishop 228 



Meteorological observations, Maine Station 228 



Report of central station for meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, Vienna . . 228 



Agricultural meteorology 228 



Meteorological observations in 1899, R. Guerin 228 



Formation of hail and surfusion, Rosenstiehl 229 



Cannonading against hail in Belgium, J. Vandervaeren 229 



Protection against hail, J. Roberto 229 



An easily constructed barometer, G. W. Russell 229 



WATER — SOILS. 



Soluble salts in cultivated soils, F, H. King and A. R. Whitson 229 



Nitrification in northwest soils, F. T. Shutt 231 



The origin of nitrates in caverns earth, W. H. Hess 232 



Nitrates in cave earths, H. W. Nichols 232 



Soil solutions; classification of alkali lands, F. K. Cameron 232 



