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A disease of pines caused by Cronartium pynforme, Hedgcock and Long 448 



A fungus disease of Hevea in the plantations of Bakiisu, Vermossen 449 



Disease of Para rubber trees in the gardens, Rutter 449 



Root disease of Para rubber caused by Sphxrostilbe repens, Brooks 449 



Study of Bordeaiix mixtiue, Sicard 449 



Adherent fungicides, Vermorel and Dantony 449 



Wetting sprays, Vermorel 450 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



Ninth International Congress of Zoology, held at Monaco, March 25-30, 1913 450 



Zoological record, Sharp 450 



Infection of man with Bacterium tularensc, Wherry and Laml) 450 



A new bacterial disease of rodents transmissible to man, Wherry 450 



Bacterium tularcnse in rabbits and danger of transfer to man, Wherry and Lamb . 451 



Color key to North American birds, Chapman 451 



Common corn insects, Webster 451 



Katydids injiu"ious to oranges in California, Horton and Pemberton 451 



Control of the changa, Crossman and Wolcott 452 



Aphids or plant lice attacking sugar cane in Porto Rico, Jones 452 



Observations and experiments on the San Jose scale, Forbes 452 



Food plants of the gipsy moth in America, Mosher 453 



The sugar cane moth stalk borer {Diatrsea saccharalis), Jones 453 



American plum borer, Blakeslee 454 



Douglas fir pitch moth, Brunner 454 



The Hessian fly sit^iation in 1915, Webster and Kelly 455 



House flies, Howard and Hutchison 455 



Fiu-ther experiments in destruction of fly larvse in horse manm'e. Cook et al 455 



Plague and plague-like disease. — A report on their transmission, Wayson 456 



The cranberry rootworm, Scammell 456 



The Calosomabeetle (Ca?osomas?/cop/ianta) in New England, Bm'gess and ColUns. 457 



The Parandra borer as an orchard enemy. Brooks 457 



The sugar cane weevil root borer (Diaprepes spengleri), Jones 458 



Cone beetles: Injury to sugar pine and western yellow pine, Miller 458 



Porto Rican beekeeping, Phillips 459 



The silverfish; an injiuious household insect, Maria tt 459 



The entomogenous fungi of Porto Rico, Johnston 459 



Variation in Oxyiu^ias: Its bearing on value of a nematode formula, Fracker. . . 459 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Contribution to the knowledge of the ripening of meat, Kren 460 



Studies on the digestibility of milk and means of increasing it, Gaucher 460 



The influence of milk feeding on mortality and growth, Rettger 460 



The germicidal effect of lactic acid in milk, Heinemann 460 



The use of saccharose and invert sugar in the preparation of bread, Jelfnek 461 



Wild plants used as food, Krause 461 



Jams, McGill 461 



Baking powders, McGill 461 



[Food inspection and analysis], Ladd and Johnson 461 



The electric cooking problem, Frickey 461 



Electric cooking, mainly from the consumer's point of view. Cooper 461 



Electric cooking and heating in private houses, Gillott 461 



Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1914 461 



Roman cooks, Harcum 462 



The food supply of the Germans during the war, edited by Eltzbacher 462 



Soup kitchens, Rubner 462 



Nutrition and gi'owth, Mendel 462 



The ' ' central-normal " nutrition of adults, Oeder 462 



Influence of drinking water on digestibility of solid substances, Grobells 462 



Influence of protein intake on formation of uric acid, Taylor and Rose 462 



The metabolism of organic and inorganic compounds of phosphorus, Forbes et al. 462 



The organic phosphorus compounds of wheat bran, Robinson and Mueller. . . . . 464 



The maize feeding of normal individuals and pellagrins, Albertoni and Tullio. 464 



The action of caffein substances, Vinci ; ; - 464 



The rational apportionment of the dietary during the 24-hour cycle, Bergonie. 464 



