1112 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



We note from a recent numljer of Scieitce that at the meeting of the Royal Society 

 of Canada, Section of CTeological and Biological Sciences, in the latter part of May, 

 Dr. William Saunders?, director of the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa and of 

 the four branch farms connected with it, gave an interesting illustration of the prog- 

 ress which is being made in introducing fruits and plants into the Northwest. A 

 hardy Siberian apple, which beare a fruit little larger than an Ontario haw, has been 

 crossed with the Ontario apple. The result was the production of a fruit about an 

 inch in diameter. About 400 of these have been crossed, and last year there were 

 30 trees and this year there will be about 70 bearing fruit. The cross retains the 

 hardiness of the Siberian apple, but the more it is crossed the nearer the product 

 comes to the Ontario fruit. Results of experiments in crossing English and Ameri- 

 can currants and gooseberries, plums, and cherries with hardier varieties of these 

 plants have not in all cases been successful, but enough has been accomplished to 

 show that hardy varieties of Ontario fruits may be proQuced in the Canadian Xorth- 

 w^est. 



Through an oversight attention has not been called to the new scientific review 

 devoted to dairy subjects, which was inaugurated late in 1901. The publication is a 

 bimonthly of 24 pages, entitled Revue generale du lait. It is devoted exclusiveh' to 

 scientific w^orks relating to milk and its products, and contains original articles as 

 well as reviews. A classified bibliography is also given in each number. It is pul)- 

 lished at Brussels under the direction of ^I. Henseval, director of the dairy station 

 at Gemblous; H. Weigmann, director of the dairy station at Kiel; and L. Gedoelst, 

 professer in the veterinary school at Cureghem-Brussels, and with the collaljoration 

 of a numVjer of prominent investigators, including H. W. Conn and H. L. Russell 

 in this country. The numbers thus far received indicate it to be a high-grade jour- 

 nal which should prove of much value to specialists desiring to follow up the scien- 

 tific contributions on milk and its products. 



A novel publication, and one which marks a new^ departure in the literature of 

 science, is the Revue hibliographique den sciences naturelles pures et appliquees, the ini- 

 tial numl^er of which appeared in April. The purpose of the review is to give lists 

 of the titles of papers published in the principal French, German, English, Italian^ 

 Swiss, and Spanish periodicals. The field covered is that of general biology, anstt- 

 omy and physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture and the agronomic sciences, 

 geology, mineralogy, and mining industry. The contents are arranged topically and 

 by comitries, and each number contains an index and a list of the periodicals 

 reviewed. Comments on the character of many of the papers sufhcient to give 

 an idea of their scope are given by specialists. The review is published in the 

 French language and will appear monthly. Judging from the first three numbers, 

 agriculture and the sciences relating to it will receive a large amount of attention. 

 This subject is subdivided into general articles and agronomy, arboriculture and 

 horticulture, viticulture, zootechny, aviculture, apiculture, etc. The review should 

 prove helpful in following up the current periodical literature, and as time goes by 

 will become valuable as a means of looking up the fragmentary literature on any 

 subject. 



A new edition (the fifth) of Dr. Adolf flayer's Lehrbuch der Agriltdiurchem'w is 

 being issued, the first part, on the nutrition of plants, having been received. This, 

 work, which has become one of the classics in agricultural literature, was first jiub- 

 lished in 1870. The present edition, as indicated by the first part, is thoroughly 

 revised and enlarged and brought up to date. One fault of the previous editions 

 has been the lack of an index, which even the quite full table of contents does not 

 take the place of in .so large a woi-k. The present edition, unfortunately, is open to 

 the same objection. 



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