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Basket willow culture, Mell 542 



The drifting-sand problem, Gill 542 



Silvical leaflets 542 



Exploitation of forests 543 



First rejwrt on a study of forest conditions of Kentucky, Holmes and Bradfield. . 543 



The management of the provincial forests of d'Amance, Cuif 543 



Forest administration of the Central Provihces for 1906-7, Gradon et al 543 



Forest administration in Eastern Bengal and Assam for 1906-7, Tottenham 544 



Forest administration of the lower provinces of Bengal for 1906-7, Mclntiro 544 



Report on the forest administration of Southern Nigeria for 1906, Thompson 544 



The use of fluorid as a preserving material for wooden poles, Nowotny 544 



Wood — its products and industrial extracts, Dumesny and Noyor 544 



Italian camphor, Giglioli 544 



Rubber extraction 545 



Ecanda rubber {Raphionacme utilis), Stapf 545 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Plant diseases in 1907, Mortensen, Rostrup, and Ravn 545 



Trials with the hot- water treatment for six-rowed barley, Ravn 545 



Wart disease, or black scab, of potatoes 545 



The root rots of beets, Busse 546 



The heart rot of sugar beets, Genty 546 



A mold of latouag wheat, Mangin and Patouillard 546 



Bean anthracnose, Whetzel 546 



Some apple leaf-spot fimgi, Hartley 547 



A leaf-spct fungus of the apple, Sheldon 547 



Apple leaf spot, Chittenden 547 



Exoascus deformans, Zauli 548 



Americau gooseberry mildew 548 



[Some vine diseases], Bioletti 548 



Notes on grape downy mildew in 1907, Faes ^ 548 



Use of proprietary mixtures for control of downy and powdery mildew, Fischer. . 548 



Effect of some fungicides on the control of downy mildew, Meissner 549 



Two diseases of prickly pears, Tryon 549 



The fir disease in Jura, Henry 549 



A note on Micropera abietis, Fron 549 



Extent and importance of the white pine blight, Dana 549 



The blight on chestnut trees, Mickleborough 550 



Extent and importance of the chestnut bark disease, Hodson 550 



A disease of the Cineraria, Chittenden 550 



The occuJTence of Rhodochytrium spilanthidis in North America, Atkinson 550 



Bordeaux mixture and other fungicides, Quinn 550 



Fungicides, Whetzel 551 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY ENTOMOLOGY. 



Harmful and beneficial mammals of the arid interior, Bailey 551 



Game laws for 1908, Palmer and Oldys 551 



Distribution and control of wild rabbits in Mecklenburg, Friedcriclis 551 



The destruction of rats, Galli-Valerio 552 



The use of fluid cultures of mouse typhoid 552 



The ecological succession of birds, Adams 552 



The significance of insectivorous birds in agriculture, Bos 552 



Proceedings of twentieth meeting of Association of Economic Entomologists. . . 552 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 553 



Some features of the work of the State board of entomology, Smith 553 



Twenty enemies of agriculture, Hnos 553 



Injurious insects and their destruction, de Malafosse 553 



Entomological notes. Fuller 554 



Description of insects and their work. Insecticides, Surface 554 



Notes on insect pesis 554 



Life histories and larval habits of the tiger beetles. Shelf ord 554 



The gum-lac insect of Madagascar, and other coccids in that Island, Newstead. . 554 



On a new genus of Ixodoidea, Nuttall and Warburton 554 



An agricultural pest in Porto Rico, Bouvier 554 



Phalacrus corruscus as an enemy of cereal smuts, Friederichs 554 



