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Method for the examination of meat extracts, Smorodinzew 804 



Quantitative determination of amino acids of feeding stuffs, Grindley et al 805 



Changes in the fat content of feces preserved by freezing, Smith et al 805 



Food chemistry in the year 1913, Riihle 805 



Tamarind sirup, Taber _. 805 



Home canning of fruits and vegetables, Crider 805 



Progress in chemistry of fermentation industry in 1913, Mohr 806 



METEOROLOGY. 



A study of the radiation of the atmosphere. Angstrom 806 



The humidity of the air, Marr 806 



May frosts in'Eberswalde and their prediction by the psychrometer, Schubert. 806 



The influence of volcanic dust veils on climatic variations, Arctowski 806 



Ground water level, rainfall, and soil texture, Krebs 806 



Dew ponds: History, observation, and experiment, Martin 806 



The weather element in American climates. Ward 807 



Cyclones and anticyclones in United States and accompanying weather, Harm. . 807 



CUmate and meteorology. Bates 807 



The climate of west Africa, Hubert 807 



The climate of Abyssinia, Addis Abeba, Hann 807 



Meteorological records, Smith 807 



Amount and composition of the rainfall at Annas Hope, St. Croix, Smith 807 



The rainfall regime of Australia, WalUs 807 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



The biochemical decomposition of nitrogenous substances in soils, Kelley 808 



The loss of nitrogen and organic matter in cultivated Kansas soils, Swanson. . 809 



Protozoology applied to the soil, Kopeloff, Lint, and Coleman 809 



Radio-acti^-ity of soils and waters, Gockel 809 



Studies in the drying of soils, Klein 810 



A study of the Atterberg plasticity method, Kinnison 811 



Soil analysis, Russell 811 



Soils of Pennsylvania, Menges 812 



The soils of the Hawaiian Islands, Kelley, McGeorge, and Thompson 812 



Van Bemmelen's method in the study of lateritic soils, De Dominicis 813 



Soils, Vipond 813 



Experimental data on podzol formation, Smimov 814 



Formation of secondary minerals in ortstein-producing horizons, Polynov 814 



Alkali or kalar experiments of Daulatpur reclamation station, Sind, Henderson. 814 



Technical means of improving alkali soils, Kirillov 815 



Transformation of sulphur in agricultural soil, Kappen and Quensell 815 



Rich harvests on poor sand soil, Koch 815 



Unfavorable influence of too close a stand of trees on water economy, Albert. . 816 



A note on relative saturation. Brown 816 



Pot tests with fertilizers compared with field trials, Coffey and Tuttle 817 



General notes on manures, their value and use, McCall 817 



Illustration of important properties of peat litter, Keppeler 817 



Investigations on the absorptive power of peat dust for water, Minssen 817 



Peat litter and nitrogen deficiency, Bersch 818 



Influence of lime nitrogen on germination, Trnka and Mygdk 818 



Action of nitrogen of molasses-sludge fertilizer, Pfeiffer and Simmermacher. . 818 



The production of phosphate rock in 1914, Phalen 819 



Potash production in California, Norton 819 



The waste from sawmills as a source of potash, Gimingham 819 



Cultivation of seaweed in Ireland, Pethyb ridge 819 



Experiments with a kieselguhr-sulphite fertilizer, Kern 820 



Agricultural lime analyses 820 



Favoralile action of manganese on the bacteria of leguminous plants, Olaru . . . 820 



Mussels as manure 820 



Soot as manure 821 



Analyses of fertilizers — fall season, 1914, Kilgore et al 821 



Commercial fertilizers, Cady 821 



Analysis of fertilizers by the Virginia Department of Agriculture for 1915 821 



[Fertilizer analyses], Vipond 821 



The commercial fertilizer industry in Austria-Hungary, Dafert and Miklauz. . . 821 



