n CONTENTS. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Page. 



A note on the relation of climate to agriculture in California, Palmer 114 



Climate of State College, Pennsylvania, Frear and Edmiaton 115 



Climatological data for the United States by sections 117 



Monthly Weather Review 117 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetta Station, Ostrander and Potter 118 



Meteorological records for 1914 118 



Ohio weather for 1914, Smith and Patton 118 



Meteorology, Edmiston 118 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Soil survey of Cleburne County, Alabama, Lewis, Waldrop, and Kolb 119 



Soil survey of Russell County, Alabama, Bell, Hurst, and Snyder 119 



Soil siu-vey of Pope County, Arkansas, Lounsbury and Deeter 119 



Reconnoissance survey of Sacramento Valley, CaUfornia, Holmes, Nelson, et al. 120 



Soil survey of Stewart County, Georgia, Long, Beck, Hall, and Burdette 120 



Soil survey of Delaware Coimty, Indiana, lliu^t and Grimes 120 



Soil Bxu^ey of Hendricks County, Indiana, Tharp and Quinn 120 



Soil BVirvey of Montgomery Coimty, Kansas, Emerson and Waldrop 121 



The soils of Kentucky, Averitt 121 



Soils of Graves County, Jones 122 



Soil survey of Jones County, Mississippi, Goo^^lman and Jones 122 



Soil survey of Greene County, Missoiu-i, Krusekopf and Hutton 122 



Soil survey of Nodaway County, Missouri, Vanatta, Knobel, and Watkins. . . . 123 



Soil survey of Perry County, Missouri, Tillman and Dcardoff 123 



Soil survey of Oneida County, New York, Maxou, Carr, and Stevens 123 



Soil survey of Randolph County, North CaroUna, Uardison and Perkins 124 



Soil survey of Stark County, Oliio, Mooney, Tuttle, and Bonazzi 124 



The composition of the soils of the Texas Panhandle, Fraps 124 



Soil survey of Logan and Mingo counties. West Virginia, Latimer 124 



Deep V. ordinary plowing, Noll 124 



Influence of dynamiting on soils, White 125 



Effect of alkali salts in soils on germination and growth of crops, Harris 125 



The effect of organic compounds in pot experiments, Fraps. 126 



Formation of carbon dioxid and nitrates with carbohydrates, Lipman et al 127 



Bacteriologj' of the general fertilizer plats. Given and Willis 127 



Bacteriology of the general fertilizer plats. — III, Ammonifications, Given. 127 



Some results of thirty years' soil treatment with barnyard manure, Mclndre 128 



Summary of experiments with fertilizers, manure, lime, etc.. Hunt et al 128 



Influence of bacteria in maniu-e on decomposition of green manure, Lipman et al. 129 



Availability of nitrogen and organic compoimds, Lipman et al. . : 129 



Influence of mechanical composition of soil on nitrate and blood, Lipman et al . . 130 



Comparative study of effects of dried blood and ammonium sulphate, Mclntire. 131 



The results of long-continued use of ammonium sulphate, White 131 



Influence of lime on the dry matter and nitrogen, Lipman et al 132 



The effect of large applications of groimd limestone, Lipman et al 132 



Results of tliirty years of liming, Mclntire 132 



Field experiments with lime, Gardner 133 



Fineness and richness in magnesium of limestone, Thomas and Frear 133 



The lime resources of Pennsylvania, Frear and Erb 133 



Commercial fertilizers, Hibbard 133 



Commercial fertilizers in 1914-15, Fraps 134 



Fertilizers licensed in Wisconsin: Analyses for 1914, Strowd 134 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Influence of pod position on viability and vigor of seedlings, Halsted et al 134 



Abortiveness of ovules in connection with position in pod, Ilalstcd et al 134 



Comparative morphology of the embryo and seedling, Sargant and Arber. ..... 135 



Obtaining complete germination in QCnothera and recording the residue, Davis. 135 



Investigations m the physiology of nutrition of higher plants, Shulov 135 



The r61e and function of mineral salts in plant life, Rabinov-itch 135 



Contribution to the study of circulation, Groth 135 



Winter rest in twigs of -witches' brooms, Schellenberg 135 



Oxidation in healthy and diseased apple bark, Rose 136 



