IV CONTENTS. 



I'age. 



Notes on some diseases of apple trees, Frillieiix 453 



A new form of Sjihwropsis on apples, Walker 453 



Studies on the genus Gymnosporangium, Kern 453 



A disease of cloves. Ridley 453 



Report on cocoanut palm disease in Travancore, Butler 454 



A disease of rubber trees in Puak, Smith 454 



The effects of O'idium quercinum on different species of oak, Bureau 454 



The timber rot fungus ( Merulius Jarhrymans), Mez 454 



The mold of maple sirup, Ileald and Pool 454 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Alaska game law and regulations of the Department of Agriculture, 1908. . 455 



OfTicials concerned with the protection of birds and game, 1908, Palmer 455 



The use of bacteria in destroying rats, Xylander 455 



Exterminating field mice with barium carbonate, Hiltner and Korff 455 



The dissociation of specific characters in hydrids between certain birds, Ghigi. 455 



Wild birds, useful and injurious, Archibald 456 



Some common birds of Oregon, Finley 456 



The locust plague in Hortobagy in 1907, and birds, Schenk 456 



A report on Trox suberosus, Iches 456 



The destruction of Mdolonlha vulgaris, Vivien 456 



A record of results from rearings and dissections of Tachinidse, Townsend 456 



The formation of the colonies of parasitic ants, Viehmeyer 457 



Annual report for 1907 of the zoologist, Warburton 457 



Insects of the year 1907, Macdougall 457 



[Notes on economic zoology], Rorig, Borner, and Moritz 457 



Report of committee on entomology, Gossard 458 



Some insect enemies of garden crops. Smith 458 



The weeviling of maize in W'est Africa, Newstead 458 



Sugar-cane borer, Ferreyros 458 



The tobacco stem borer, Lefroy 458 



The larvae of the cabbage butterfly, Paoli 458 



Plutella cruci/crarum, Quanjer 458 



The blackberry leaf-miner, Houghton 458 



A new enemy of the strawberry in Germany, Morstatt 459 



Use of arsenical compounds in the treatment of vineyards, Bertin-Sans and Ros. 459 



Combating the olive fly, Berlese 459 



The cocoanut beetle in Batticaloa, Ceylon, Green 459 



The more important insects affecting Ohio shade trees, Houser 459 



Forest injuries from insects, Hanff 459 



Injury to Abies nohilis by Chermes piceae bouvieri, Molz 459 



Some coleoptera affecting the honey locust, Houghton 459 



Note on the lac insect, its life history, propagation, and collection, Stebbing. . 460 



The life history of house flies, Griffith 460 



The bot fly (Gastrophilus cqui), Froggatt 460 



The role of arthropods in the dissemination of diseases, Galli-Valerio 460 



Sericultural experiments, Basu Bahadur 460 



Silk culture and the silk industry in Turkey, Shavrov 460 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Food of man studies, Merrill i 461 



Some unusual Japanese food products, Loew 461 



New Zealand boned beef, Wright 461 



Brown spots on beef, Klein 462 



The cuts of a hog carcase, Dinsmore 462 



Chemical composition of fish with reference to growth and environment, Reuss. 462 



Digestibility of milk products, Bruynoghe 462 



Lard, McGill 462 



Meat extract and similar preparations, Bigelow and Cook 462 



Observation on army bread, Bischoff 463 



Influence of yeast improvers on bread fermentation, Vandevelde and Masson . 463 



Honey, McGill 463 



The fig, Doggett 463 



Nuts and their uses as food, Jaffa 464 



Olive oil and its adulteration, Blavia 464 



