II CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Separation of saccharose and lactose by the Bulgarian ferment, Margaillan .... 10 



Methods for estimating cellulose, Renker 10 



Cause of low results in glycogen analysis with dilute alkali, Francke 10 



Influence of time of heating with alkali on glycogen determination, Hessen ... 11 



The quantitative estimation of formic acid, Franzen and Greve 11 



Albert's method for soil acidity, Siichting and Arnd 11 



[Albert's method for soil acidity], Albert 11 



Pentosans in soil, Schreiner and Shorey 11 



Examination of water. Mason 11 



lodo-eosin as a test for free alkali in dried-up plant tissues, Hof 11 



Judging of corn and its products, Schindler 11 



Judging cakes with the protein content declared, Kiihl 12 



The ferments of honey and their value for judging honey, Auzinger 12 



Detection of cocoa shells in cocoa, Goske 12 



Detecting benzoic, cinnamic,and salicylic acids, von der Heide and Jakob .. 12 



"Protective" action of the colloids in milk, Alexander and Bullowa 12 



Analyses and composition of milk and its products, Gudeman 12 



The composition of milk, Lythgoe 12 



A study of the newer methods for detecting watered milk, Cornalba 13 



Catalase apparatus for milk 13 



Apparatus for determining combinations of carbon dioxid in milk, Barilk' 13 



A new method for examining cream, Hesse 13 



Tablet reagents for estimating sugar in animal urine, Miiller 13 



Agricultural analyses, Guillin 13 



Tartaric acid from wine residues, Janson 13 



Extraction of oil from Chinese oil beans, Hoffmann 13 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



The value of weather forecasting in agriculture, Dunlop 14 



The relation of the weather service to the farmers of Tennessee, Voorhees 14 



Climatology of Italy in its relation Avith health and with agriculture. Roster. . 14 



Compensation between types of simultaneous seasons, Hildebrandsson 14 



Dependence of some geographical factors on the barometric relief, Brounov 14 



On the diurnal heat exchange in a layer of snow on the ground, Okada 15 



Monthly Weather Review 15 



Meteorological summaries for the year 1908 15 



Division of meteorology, Helme 15 



The weather of 1909, Landry 15 



Meteorology 15 



Meteorological records 15 



Is South Africa drying up? Barber 16 



The occurrence of ground water, Mezger 16 



The underground water supply and requirements of cultivated plants, Hitier. 16 



Some notes on artesian and other water supplies. Green 16 



Analyses of mineral waters, A veritt and Shedd 16 



The self-purification of water after artificial inoculation, Schepilewsky 16 



The sterilization of water by the ultraviolet, Urbain, Seal, and Feige 16 



Disposal of Paris sewage by irrigation at Gennevilliers, Bourneville et al 16 



Sewage disposal at Birmingham and Salisbury, England, Watson and Binnie. . 17 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Soil fertility and permanent agriculture, Hopkins 17 



The conservation of the fertility of the soil, Wiley 18 



Crop yield and soil composition, ^\^litney ' 18 



Whitney's theory of soil fertility, Lemmermann 18 



The removal of silt from soils by the waters of the Seine, Miintz 18 



The kaolinizing action of roots on the Roman lava rocks, De Angelis d'Ossat. . 19 



Investigations on the soil, Russell 19 



A new form of Dr. Russell's oxidation apparatus for soils, Darbishire 19 



Nitrification in the soil under different conditions, Welbel 19 



The nitrogen enriching of soils, Krainskii 19 



The solution of the nitrogen question by soil inoculation, Stoklasa 20 



Cooperation of micro-organisms in utilization of insoluble phosphates, De Grazia . 20 



Soils of Mississippi, Hutchinson 20 



Soil experiments on upland loam of southeast Missouri, Miller and Hutchison. . 20 



