n CONTENTS. 



Page. 



The bacteriological examination of food and water, Savage 311 



Fatty foods: Their practical examination, Bolton and Revis 312 



Methods for the biological examination of milk, Bauer 312 



A method for the determination of fat in milk (nephelometric method), Bloor. . 312 



A rapid method of estimating fat in cheese, cream, and butter, Kropat 313 



Material for uniform laws regarding foodstuffs. — IV, Cheese 313 



Ethyl ester of linoleic tetrabromid of cotton-seed oil. Palmer and Wright 313 



A new method for determining crude fiber, Stiegler 314 



New agreement about malt analysis. Bode and Wlokka 314 



The American Leather Chemists Association, 1914 314 



Copra drying, Hines 314 



Yearbook of alcohol and starch interests, and potato driers, edited by Foth. . . 315 



METEOROLOGY. 



Climatic provinces of the western United States, Reed 315 



Geographical aspects of climatological investigations, Wallie 315 



Principia atmospherica : A study of the circulation of the atmosphere, Shaw. . 315 



The moon and the autumn storms, Hinselmann 316 



Types of storms of the United States, Bowie and Weightman 316 



Climatological data for the United States by sections 316 



Meteorological data, Cromie ^. 316 



Meteorology [of New South Wales], Trivett 316 



[The climate of New South Wales], Trivett 316 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



The Clyde series of soils, Bonsteel 316 



The Miami series of soils, Bonsteel 317 



Soil survey of Jeff Davis County, Georgia, Wood et al 317 



Soil survey of Bremer County, Iowa, Baldwin, Watson, and Howe 317 



The influence of glaciation on agriculture in Ohio, Owen 317 



Studies on the change of the soil surface, Hoffmann 318 



The action of hydroxyl ions on clay and clay soils, Rohland 318 



The colloids of clay and humus soils, Rohland 318 



The adsorptive power of soil colloids, Rohland 318 



The colloidal properties of red soils, Rohland 318 



Colloidal properties of the acid soils of Japan, Tadokoro 318 



Preliminary note on iron in Florida soils, Brautlecht and Parlin 319 



Absorption by leaves in decay, and effect on the soil, Noyes 319 



A note on leaf -fall as a cause of soil deterioration, Balls 319 



Crop residues, Schulze 319 



The origin of vanillin in soils, Sullivan 320 



Antagonism between anions as affecting soil bacteria, II, Lipmanand Burgess . 320 



Inoculation experiments on virgin upland moor soil, von Feihtzen and Nystrom . 320 



Studies on soil protozoa. — II, Some of the activities of protozoa, Cunningham . . . 320 



Three new proteomyxan rhizopods from soil, Goodey 321 



Sterilization or disinfection of the soil, Allege 321 



Suggestions for judging the agricultural value and adaptation of land, Brooks. . 321 



The chemical analysis of soils, Brooks 321 



The crop experiment and soil analysis, Lemmermann 321 



Investigations at the Jasper County experiment field, Miller and Hudelson 321 



Do stable and green manures affect yields tlirough carbon tlioxid? Bornemann . 322 



Poultry manures, their treatment and use. Brooks 322 



How cheap nitrates would rcA^olutionize our economic life, Strong 322 



Nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture, Kulisch 323 



Top-dressing with Chile nitrate, Kiehl : 323 



The Elliston phosphate field , RIontana. Stone and Bonine 323 



The Bernard phosphate as compared m ith superphosphate and slag, Jelmoni . . 323 



The manufacture of acid phosphate, AVaggaman 323 



Deposits of potash salts and other minerals used as fertilizers 323 



The agricultural utilization of potassic rocks, ^farre 324 



Feldspar as a possible source of American potash , Cushman and Coggeshall 324 



Can soda replace potash in the nutrition of sugar beets? Ivriiger et al 324 



Is the doctrine of the lime factor an hypothesis or a proved theory? Loew 324 



The source, manufacture, and use of lime, Burchard and_ Emley 324 



Common salt and its use as manure in the Konkan Division, GonehalU 324 



