n CONTENTS. 



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Supposed reversibility of hydrolyaia of salicin, Bertrand and Compton ,508 



Analytical chemistry, Tread well, trans, by Hall 506 



The examination of waters and water supplies, Thresh 506 



Food analysis, Bauer 506 



Progress in the examination of foods and condiments for 1911, Beckurts et al. . 506 



An improved method of crude fiber estimation, Forbes and Mensching 506 



Rapid control method for determination of oil in grains, Harding and Nye 507 



Method for milk fat in evaporated milk and milk powders, Harding and Parkin . . 507 



Catalase in butter, Hesse 508 



The fatty acids of butter, Smedley 508 



A ne w method for total nitrogen in urine , Folin and Farmer 508 



The distribution of amygdalin, Rosenthaler 509 



Choice of yeasts in detection of sugars and glucosids, Bourquelot and Herissey . . 509 



In regard to the technical-scientific work m potato drying, Parow 509 



Fermentation in breweries, distilleries, etc., Delbriick and Haydick 509 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



Agricultural meteorological contributions 509 



Annals of agricultural meteorology, edited by Brounov 510 



The organization of a general service for agricultural meteorology, Rey 510 



Agricultural meteorology, Poskin 510 



International catalogue of scientific literature. F — Meteorology 510 



Monthly Weather Review 510 



Frost studies. ^ — Determining probable mi n imum temperatures, McAdie 511 



The rainfall of Berkeley, Cal., Reed 511 



Sixrface water supply of North Pacific coast, 1910, Henshaw et al 511 



Surface water of Hudson Bay and upper Mississippi River, Follansbee et al 511 



Surface water supply of western Gulf of Mexico, 1911, Follett et al 511 



Water resources of Hawaii, 1909-1911, Martin and Pierce. --_----- 511 



Underground water resources of coastal plain pro\'ince of Virginia, Sanford .... 511 



Sewage pollution of Missouri River from Sioux City to its mouth, McLaughlin. . 512 



Chlorid of lime in sanitation, Hooker 512 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Tlie value of soil analyses to the farmer. Hall 512 



Soils of the Hartford quadrangle, Jones ._ 513 



A botanical cross section of northern Mississippi, Harper 513 



Economic products of the Virginia coastal plain, Watson 513 



The salt marshes of the north coast of Porto Rico, Zerban 513 



The origin, formation, nature, and culture of moors, Benze 514 



Soils, Vipond 514 



[Usar and regur soils], Leather 514 



Contribution to regional weathering in ancient times, Blanck 514 



Warping, Stephenson -_ 514 



Influence of various factors of growth on the maximum yield, Pfeiffer et al 514 



A note on the behavior of nitrate in cultivated soil, Vogel _ 515 



The condition of soil phosphoric acid insoluble in hydrochloric acid. Fry 515 



A study of bacteria at different depths in some typical Iowa soils. Brown 515 



The prevalence of Bacillus radicicola in soil, Kellerman and Leonard 515 



The complexity of the micro-organic population of the soil, Bolley 515 



Cereal croppino;. — Sanitation, a new basis, Bolley ._._ 516 



Crops and fertilizers at Swedish moor culture stations, 1912, von Feilitzen. . . . 516 



Cooperative fertilizer trials on Finnish moor soils, 1910-11, Malm 516 



Fertilizers for moor land, von Feilitzen 516 



Cave deposits of fertilizing value, Vipond 516 



Guano Islands, Smith and Zeederberg 516 



Seaweed burning in Norway, Leonard 517 



The American fertilizer handbook, 1913 517 



Importance of nitrogenous fertilizers, Turrentine 517 



The nitrate fields of ChUe, Tower 517 



The Ostwald process for making nitric acid froni ammonia . . . ._ 517 



The fixation of ammoniacal nitrogen by permutite and clay soils, Hissink. . . . 517 



The assimilation of the nitrogen of peat, Hoc 518 



Cyanamid. — Manufacture, chemifltry, and uses, Pranke 518 



