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collected for inspection in New Jersey during 1916, together with a list of 

 brands re;jistered for sale. 



Analyses of fertilizers and cottonseed meal, B. W. Kilgore et al. {BuI. 

 ¥. C. Dept. Agr., 31 (1916), No. 10, pp. 86).— Tliis report contains the results of 

 actual and guaranteed analyses of 1,371 samples of fertilizers and fertilizing 

 materials and 187 samples of cottonseed meal collected for inspection in North 

 Carolina during the fall of 191.5 and the spring of 1916. 



List of fertilizer and lime manufacturers and importers {Pcnn. Dept. Agr. 

 Bui. 289 {1911), pp. Jfl). — This bulletin gives the texts of the Pennsylvania 

 fertilizer, bone, and lime laws, and a list of fertilizer manufacturers and 

 brands of fertilizers licensed for sale during 1917. 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Plant physiology as horticultural theory, II. Moi.isch (Pflanzcuphpsiologie 

 als Thcorie der Gdrtncrci. Jena: Guftav Fistfur, 1916, pp. X+SO't, figi*. 128). — 

 The seven sections f>f this book, which is intended primarily for horticulturists, 

 deal principally with plant nutrition, respiration, growth, freezing and frost 

 killing, reproduction, germination of seeds, and variability, inheritance, and 

 plant breeding. 



Applied and economic botany, H. Kraemer (Philadelphia: Author, 1916. 2. 

 ed., pp. VIII +822, pis. 2, figs. J,20).— In the pre.><ent edition (E. S. R., 33. p. 

 27), the text has been revi.sed, bringing the work up to date. Among the por- 

 tions added are a glo.ssary and a concise statement regarding the nature ami 

 properties of vitamins. 



Canaigre, a quick-growing tannin plant for acclimatization in France, 

 A. Pi^DALLU (Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. [Paris], 163 (1916). Xo. 20, pp. 515, 

 516). — This is a discussion of canaigre (Rumex hyinenoscpnlus) as a rapidly 

 growing and abundant source of tannin to take the place of the oak and chest- 

 nut trees destroyed by military activities in portions of France. 



New names in Amygdalus, P. L. Kicker (Proe. Biol. Soc. Wa.<ih., SO (1911), 

 pp. 11, 18). — It has bein considered necc.«<.«<ary, in accordance with present 

 usage, to make several transfers from Prunus to Amygdalus. A list is given 

 of such recent transfers, resulting in 14 species of Amygdalus. 



Studies in the nomenclature and classification of bacteria. The problem 

 of bacterial nomenclature, 11. E. Hlchanan (Jour. Pact., 1 (1916), Xo. 6. pp. 

 591-596). — The author expresses the view that the present time is propitious 

 for the careful formulation of general rules of bacteriological nomenclature and 

 of a general scheme of bacterial classification. Regarding this work several sug- 

 gestions are offered. 



Preliminary note on the classification of some lactose-fermenting bacteria, 

 M. Levine (Joiir. Pact., 1 (1916), No. 6. pp. 619-621).— A key is given which is 

 said to be the result of a study of 333 lactose-fermenting organisms isolated 

 from soil, sewage, and animal sources. The subdivisions propose«l are not 

 based upon single characters but upon differences in groups of characters. The 

 names employed are consideretl as tentative only. 



The preparation of culture media from whole blood, R. A. Kei.sep. (Jour. 

 Pact., 1 (1916), No. 6, pp. 615-611). — Describing the method employed in the 

 preparation of a whole blowl culture medium, said to be more easily and 

 qtiickly prepared than ordinary beef infusion and to be inexpensive and well 

 adapted to organisms which do not thrive well on ordinary culture nieilia. the 

 author states that this can practically replace the more ditncult prei>anition 

 serum agar. A concentrated extratt from blood, which was still further re- 

 duced by evaporation, pruveil satisfactory as a culture medium. 



