II CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Estimation of sugar in cow's milk, Van Driel 809 



The estimation of inorganic compounds in milk, Allemann 809 



Characteristics of oils from certain expressed seeds, Kochs 809 



Characteristics of Japanese tea oil, Tsujimoto 810 



Color reactions of sesame oil with aromatic aldehydes and sugars, Fleig 810 



Technical chemists' handbook, Lunge 810 



Leather trades chemistry, Trotman 810 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



Weather forecasts 810 



The occurrence of the foehn without subsequent precipitation, I\Iayr 810 



A hailstorm following the coiu-se of an electric transmission-line, Violle 810 



The action of electric power lines on hailstorms, Violle 810 



Bulletin of the Mount Weather Observatory 81 1 



Monthly Weather Review 811 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Lindblad. 811 



Meteorological summary for 1907, Patton 812 



The climate of Innsbruck, Fessler 812 



The climate and meteorology of Australia, Hunt 812 



Climate, Ward 812 



Geology and water resources of a portion of south-central Oregon, Waring 812 



Geology and water resources of the Great Falls region, Montana, Fisher 812 



Preliminary rejjort on the ground waters of San Joaquin Valley, Mendenhall. . 813 



Ground waters and irrigation enterprises in southern California, Mendenhall. . 813 



Water conservation and irrigation 813 



The disinfection of drinking water with hydrogen peroxid, Reichel. 813 



The industrial uses of ozone, particularly for purification of water, Perkin 813 



The relative bacteriological contents of can, plate, and natural ice. Sparks 813 



Water supply and sewerage 813 



Sewage-grown crops 814 



SOIL.S — FERTILIZERS. 



The storage of winter precipitation in soils, Widtsoe 814 



Quantity and composition of drainage water, Norton 814 



Distribution of water in the soil in furrow irrigation, Loughridge 815 



The physical condition of the soil in relation to agriculture, Ilallissy 817 



Investigations on the composition of the air of cultivated soils, Lau 817 



The content of radio-active emanations in soil air, Gockel 817 



The absorptive power of a cultivated soil, Rosen and Heller ." 817 



The colloids of cultivated soils, Ehrenberg 818 



Topographic mapping of bottom lands in Illinois, McCrary 818 



Superficial and agricultural geology — Ireland, No. 2. — Soils, Kinahan 818 



Soil analyses, Amos and Russell 818 



Deli soils, Vriens _- 818 



The value of mineralogical-petrographic soil analysis, von 'Sigmond 818 



The alkali soils of the great Hungarian Alfold, Treitz 818 



Lime and phosphates in Rhodesian soils, Cameron 819 



Investigations on the fertility of noncalcareous soils, Paturel 819 



The status of soil fertility investigations 819 



Chemical principles of soil classification, Hopkins 819 



Chemical principles of soil fertility, Hopkins 819 



Bacteria for enriching the soil and increasing crop production, Banerjei 819 



Notes on inoculation with Nitragin and inoculated soil, Heinze 819 



Inoculation of gram seed with the tubercle-forming bacteria, Hayman 819 



Protection of the soil in Hungary, Gonnard 820 



Terracing of farm lands, Ashe 820 



Improvement and management of eastern Virginia lands, Stubbs 820 



Study of phosphoric acid and lime requirements of soils, Liechti 820 



Fertilizer experiments at the Biological Agricultural Institute, Lommel 820 



Manuring experiment on flooded (rice) ground. Van der Stok 820 



Note on action of nitric acid in neutralizing alkaline soil, Symmonds 821 



Artesian waters 821 



Artesian irrigation: An antidote for alkaline waters, Symmonds 821 



The most economical sources of nitrogen for plant food, Clinton 821 



Behavior of lime nitrogen and nitrogen lime m storage and in soils, Popp 821 



