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Action of ozone on beech wood (lignocellulose), Doree and Cunningham 711 



Utilizing wood waste, Teeple 711 



Chemistry in relation to the frozen meat industry of New Zealand, Wright 711 



Butchers' , packers' , and sausage makers'^ red book 711 



Occurrence of Zygosaccharomyces varieties in wine, Matsumoto and Kroemer. 711 



OccuiTence of Saccharomycodes in musts, Ki-oemer and Heinrich 712 



The place occupied by Saccharomyces apiculatus forms in wines, Heinrich 712 



Report in regard to the activities of the pure yeast culture station, Laue 712 



The fermentation of cacao, edited by Smith 712 



Cacao, Peimbert y Manterola 712 



Calcium thioarsenate as a spray, Katz and Buckminster 712 



[Activities of the various state laboratories in Belgium] 712 



METEROLOGY — WATER. 



Weather forecasting, Deeley 712 



Weather forecasting. Dines 713 



Bulletin of the Mount Weather Observatory 713 



Monthly Weather Review .^ 713 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Dexter... 713 



Evaporation from free water surfaces, Luedecke 713 



A plea for the exact measurement of rainfall, Flowers 713 



The fight against hail, Audiffred et al 713 



Water storage and its advantages, Houston 713 



Importance of quantitative determination of chlorids in water, Malmojac 714 



The taste of hard water, Friedmann 714 



The influence of waste liquors from potassium chlorid factories on the biological 



purification of water supplies, Miiller and Fresenius 714 



SOILS— FERTILIZERS . 



Humus in California soils, Loughridge 714 



The humus of acid and alkaline peats, Hanley 715 



Contribution to the knowledge of typical kinds of peat, Minssen 715 



The fluctuation in nitrate contents of arable soils, Russell 716 



Influence of soils and their water on nitrogen transformation, Miinter and Robson . 717 



Effect of CS2 and toluol upon nitrification, Gainey 717 



The mechanism of denitrification, Hulme 718 



The action of soil bacteria and their relation to plant growth, Fischer 718 



Nodule bacteria and preparations for soil inoculation, Makrinov 718 



Colloidal matter in clay and soils, Rohland 718 



Solution and precipitation of iron in iron pan formation, Morison and Sothers . . 718 



Ferrous iron in soils, Morison and Doyne 719 



Mineral deposits, Lindgren 719 



Disposal of manure. Hall 720 



The production of guano in Chile, Yunge 720 



Fertilizer economy in Holland, De Young 720 



Production and import of fertilizers in Russia 720 



Commercial fertilizers, 1912 720 



Progress in the fixation of nitrogen in Scandinavia 721 



Making ammonium sulphate from coal gas, Desmarets 721 



The organic synthesis of ammonia, Serpek 721 



The industrial synthesis of nitric acid and ammonia, Matignon 721 



Effect of soluble humates on nitrogen fixation and plant growth, Bottomley. . . 721 



Ammonium humate as a source of nitrogen for plants, Bottomley 721 



The bacterial treatment of peat, Bottomley 721 



The solubility of mineral phosphates in citric acid, Robertson 721 



Action of certain soil constituents on monocalcium phosphate, Davis 722 



The locking up of phosphate fertilizers in Java soils, De Jongh 722 



' ' Crumbing " of superphosphate and Thomas slag, Mikulowski-Pomortki 722 



Accessory constituents of phosphatic slag, Demolon and Brouet 723 



A brief note on the phosphate deposits of Egypt, Ball 723 



Topography and geology of the phosphate district of Safaga, Ball 723 



A study of the phosphate industry, Petre 724 



German Thomas meal for America, Skinner 724 



The potash works of Upper Alsace 724 



