n CONTENTS. [Vol. 35 



Page. 

 Solubility data for various salts of lauric, myristic, palmitic, and stearic acids, 



Jacobson and Holmes 416 



The separation of lauric and myristic acids, Jacobsen and Holmes 416 



Determination of tartaric acid, Hartmann, Eoff, and Ingle 417 



The analysis of nonalcoholic lemon and orange extracts, Redfem 417 



Tests for gum arable and its quantitative determination, Waters and Tuttle. . . 417 



Drying sugar beets and other agricultiiral products and by-products, Groger. . . 417 



Evaporation of apples, Caldwell 418 



Apple drying, Farrell 418 



Jelly investigations, Cruess and McNair. _. 418 



Jellies, preserves, and marmalades, Harris 419 



Preserving at home, Riesenberg 419 



Proceedings of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1914 419 



METEOROLOGY. 



Monthly Weather Review _ 419 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander et al 420 



[Amount and composition of rainfall at Georgetown, 1910-1914], Harrison 420 



Atmospheric pollution, Wynne 420 



Atmospheric pollution in English and Scotch towns, Kershaw 420 



International catalogue of scientific literature. F— Meteorology 421 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



The soil and its cultivation, Diffloth 421 



Soil survey of Clay County, Georgia, Smith and Kirk 421 



Soil survey of Turner County, Georgia, Hall and Long 421 



Winnebago County soils, Hopkins et al 421 



Soil survey of Webster County, Iowa, Veatch and Howe 422 



Soil siu-vey of Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, Bushnell and Davis 422 



Soil survey of Pettis County, Missouri, Krusekopf and Rogers 422 



Soil survey of Chautauqua County, New York, Morrison, Engle, and Fuller. . . 423 



Soil survey of Lincoln County, North Carolina, Burke and Brinkley 423 



The availability of nutrient salts, McCall 423 



The action of chlorids on soil and plant, Haselhoff 423 



Circulation of manganese in natural waters, Vincent 424 



Effect of cumarin and vanillin on wheat grown in cultures, Davidson 424 



Nitrification, Allen ." 424 



Recent investigations on production of plant food in the soil, II, Russell 424 



The respective values of organic and inorganic manures, Hodsoll 425 



The time and depth of plowing under of stable and green manure, Seelhorst. . 425 



The role of nitrifjdng bacteria in the decomposition of manure, Smirnov 426 



Green manuring experiments, Voelcker 426 



Acti^dty of insoluble nitrogen in fertilizers, Pember and Hartwell 426 



Field experiments on the action of new forms of nitrogen, Schneidewind 427 



The industry and commerce of nitrogenous substances, Bertrand 428 



Experiments with phosphatic manures on green crops 428 



Solubility of phosphates and utilization by oats and buckwheat, Pfeiffer et al . . 428 



The action of the phosphoric acid in different Thomas meals, Tacke et al 428 



Phosphates and phosphatic marls 428 



Idaho phosphate resources, Bell 429 



Investigation of a reported discovery of phosphate in Alberta, de Schmid 429 



The investigation of potash and phosphate beds, Gossner 429 



Conservation of potassium, Ames 429 



Lime as a soil improver, Dannfelt 429 



Injury to plant growth by caustic lime, Rothert 429 



The sensitiveness of different lupines and other plants to Lime, Hiltner 430 



Magnesia and plant growth, Aston 430 



[Trials with bacterized peat and magnesium sulphate], Dimlop 430 



[Fertilizer analyses]. Rose and Wilson 430 



Commercial fertilizers: What they contain and their uses, Stroud 430 



Miscellaneous samples, limestones, marls, shells, Heimbiu-ger 430 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Pfeffer jubilee volume 430 



A convenient modification of the porometer, Knight 431 



