IV CONTENTS. 



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The late blight of potato, Basu 443 



A blight-proof potato 443 



A blight and frost resisting variety of potato 443 



Potato canker, Appel 443 



Potato scab, Darnell-Smith 443 



Wart disease of potatoes, Middleton 444 



Potato si)raying, Duke of Bedford and Pickering 444 



Cojilrol of potato diseases in "Wisconsin, Jones 444 



Relation of certain species of Fusarium to tomato blight, Humphrey 444 



Apple canker, Wiltshire 445 



An algal disease of cacao. Freeman 445 



Operations against cacao canker, Van Hall 445 



Black spot of the mandarin _ 445 



American gooseberry mildew, Middleton 445 



The treatment of court-noue by tar, Bertrand 445 



Downy mildew and measures for coml)ating it, Martinand 446 



The diseases of the sweet pea, Taubenhaus 446 



The chestnut blight fungus and a related saprophyte, Anderson 446 



The destruction of insects and fungi, Semichon 447 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



Wild life conservation in theory and practice, Homaday 447 



Useful birds and their protection, Forbush 447 



Birds of New York, Eaton 447 



The frogs and toads [of Long Island], Overton ^ 448 



The scope and aims of applied entomology, Imms 448 



Experiments on inheritance in parthenogenesis. Agar 448 



Report from the division of entomology for 1913, Hewitt 448 



Annual report for 1913 of the zoologist, Warburton 448 



[Report] division of entomologj^ Jepson 448 



Report of division of entomology for 1913, d'Emmerez de Charmoy 448 



[Insect pests in Mauritius], d'Emmerez de Channoy 449 



Crop pest handbook for Behar and Orissa (including also western Bengal) 449 



Insects found on nursery stock imported into New Jersey during 1913, Weiss. . 449 



Some considerations on protection of orchards from insects, PaiTott 449 



Insects injurious to the household and annoying to man,_Herrick 449 



New species of Diaspinoe living on the olive, Leonard! 449 



The larger com stalk borer, Ainslie 449 



Converting of cotton sticks into charcoal for destruction of boUworm, McKiUop . . 449 



A new Gracilaria on azalea, Busck 450 



The chestnut bast miner, Busck 450 



Enemies of rice, particularly Ckironomus cavazzai, Cavazza 450 



Bloodsucking Ceratopogoninge of Brazil, Lutz 450 



Posterior stigmata of dipterous larvoe as a diagnostic character, MacGregor 450 



M>dasis of the urinary passages, Iving 450 



Effect of cold storage upon Mediterranean fruit fly, Wilcox and Hunn 450 



Marguerite fly or chrysanthemiim leaf miner ( Phj/tomijza chrysanthemi), Smulyan 451 



Life history of the melon fly. Back and Pemberton 452 



Observations on the larvae of fleas, Bacot and Ridewood 452 



Anisoplia austriaca and methods of combating it, Vassiliev 452 



A new African coccinellid, Serangium giffardi n. sj)., Grandi 453 



Description of Sitona humeralis. Grandi 453 



A nematode parasite of the olive weevil, Del Guercio 453 



The artificial fertilization of queen bees, Jager and Howard 453 



A little-known orchid pest (Isosoma orchidearum) , Whitney 453 



The chalcis-fly in alfalfa seed, Urbahn's 454 



The British Braconidte. — II, Macrocentridse, Lyle 454 



A new proctotrypoid egg parasite from the West Indies, Dodd 454 



Report of a trip to Africa m search of fruit fly parasites, Sih-estri 454 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Coloring matter of raw and cooked salted meats, Hoagland 454 



Changes in composition of peel and pulp of ripening bananas, Gore 455 



Soluble aluminum compounds in certain vegetable products, Myers 455 



Syrian food products exported to United States, Hollis 455 



