CONTENTS. V 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



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Digest of the game, fish, and forestry laws, edited by Kalbfus 150 



Notes on mortality of young of wild birds, Butler 150 



The red-winged blackbird. — A study in the ecology of a cat-tail marsh, Allen. . 151 



Sixth report of Quebec Society for Protection of Plants, 1913-14 151 



The forest insects of central Europe: A text-book and handbook, Escherich . . . 151 



Entomological notes, Gough 151 



Common insects of the garden, Gillette 151 



An efficient and practicable method for controlling melon lice. Durst 151 



An experiment on killing tree scale by poisoning the sap of the tree, Sanford. . 152 



The Great Basin tent caterpillar in California, Van Dyke 152 



Seasonal variation in the common bollworm {Earias insulana), Storey 152 



Methods for destruction of pink bollworm in cotton seed, Gough and Storey. . 152 



The sugar beet web worm, Parker 153 



The army worm (Heliophila unipuncta), Fernald 153 



The biology of the North American crane flies (Tipulidse, Diptera), I and II. . 153 



Grub eradication, Ransom 153 



Hypoderma bovis and means for controlling it, Lucet 153 



Relative attractiveness of oils for Mediterranean fruit fly, Severin 153 



The apple maggot, O'Kane 153 



Larch killed by a longicorn beetle, Osmaston 155 



Otiorhynchus sulcatus on the island of Ol^ron, Feytaud 156 



The alfalfa weevil (Phytonovius posticus), Ellis 156 



Eurytoma amygdalis, which injures plums and apricots in Astrakhan, Rodzianko ] 56 



Description of two braconids parasitic on Earias, Dudgeon and Gough 156 



The common red spider or spider mite, Ewing 156 



[Spraying tests of insecticides upon potatoes], Ince 158 



Preparation of nicotin extracts on the farm, Ellett and Grissom 158 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Minnesota wheat investigations. — Series III, Crops of 1912 and 1913, Bailey. . . 159 



Studies of wheat quality under North Dakota conditions. Stockman 160 



Further data on the use of calcium in bread making, Emmerich and Loew 161 



Some edible fishes of Chile with a description of the new species. Porter 161 



Canned corn 161 



Corn oil as a substitute for oUve oil and cotton-seed oil, Pool and Sayre 161 



Analyses of honey, Kretzschmar 161 



Improvement in the commercial supply of spices and its cause, Sayre 161 



New physical method for lessening harmfulness of coffee, Schenk and Gorbing 161 



"Food and drug exainination and inspection], Ladd and Johnson 162 



Food inspection and analyses], I^add and Johnson 162 



Food and drug inspection and analyses], Ladd and Johnson 162 



Work of inspection department of Dresden, 1913, Beythien and Hempel 162 



1,001 tests of foods, beverages, and toilet accessories, Wiley 162 



Available food suppUes, Lyman 162 



Prices of foodstuffs on the Bern market since 1878 162 



Wages and family budgets in the Chicago stockyards district, Kennedy et al. . 163 



Workingmen's family budgets for seventy families in Holland 163 



The statistical study of dietaries, a reply to Prof. Karl Pearson, Paton 163 



The statistical study of dietaries. — A rejoinder, Pearson 163 



Influence of fuel value on vitamin to prevent beri-beri, Bradden and Cooper. . 163 



Quantity of a diet in relation to quantity of vitamin 164 



Nutritive properties of proteins of the maize kernel, Osborne and Mendel 164 



Effect of benzoic acid and its sodium salt on the animal organism, Rost et al 164 



Bacteria in feces, Osborne and Mendel 165 



Urea: Distribution in and elimination from the body, Marshall, jr., and Davis. 165 



The suppression of growth and the capacity to grow, Osborne and Mendel 165 



The basal, gaseous metaboUsin of normal nien and women, Benedict et al 165 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



International catalogue of scientific Literature. L — General biology 166 



Previous nutrition and metabolism in fasting, Schlossmann and Murschhauser. 166 



Excretion of purin cataboUtes in urine of ungulates, Hunter Givens et al 166 



Notes on some indigenous and other fodder plants, Juritz 166 



