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Manures, 11. E. Annett, F. V. Darbisiiire, and E. .T. Rvssell (Jour. Soutli- 

 ivst. .If//-. Col. Wyr. ID07, AV>. 16, pp. 1S3-Z00) .—TMa article gives analyses 

 with discnssions j»f the fertilizing value of fish, meat, and other guanos, bone 

 manures, potash salts, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, rape dust, pond 

 muds, septic tank deposit, seaweeds, greaves, waste products, shoddy, mixett 

 manures, sewage sludges, lime, phosphatic manures, mineral phosphates, super- 

 jiliosphate, and gypsum. 



Ohio fertilizer law (Off. Rpt. Ohio Dcpt. Agr. on Acrcdf/r and Condition of 

 Croits. l!)<i>l. /)/). 17-20). — Various amendments of this law which tooli effect 

 Nuvcmlicr 1, 1!M)8, are given. 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Solereder's Systematic Anatomy of Dicotyledons, trans, by L. A. Boodle 

 and F. E. Fritscii, revi.setl by D. II. Scott (Oxford, 1908, toJh. 1, pp. XII + G',',, 

 /ign. 153; 2, pp. ¥1+645-1183, figs. 36). — ^After an introduction dealing chiefly 

 with the value of anatomical characters, descriptions are given of the anatomical 

 features of the individual dicotyledonous orders, the arrangement of the latter 

 being the same as in Bentham and Hooker's (Jenera Blantarum. Under the 

 description of each order, after a short review of the anatomical characters, de- 

 t.-iiliHl statements are given as to the structure of the leaf, structure of the axis, 

 etc. Following the detailed descriptions a summary is given of the existing 

 data regarding anatomical characters of plants. 



The book, in addition to its value to students of plant anatomy, will be useful 

 to those interested in ai)plied botany, for the determination of raw vegetable 

 products of unknown origin, and also to the i)hysi()logist who wishes to obtain 

 iufiirmation on the anatomy of the plants used in his experiments and on the 

 distribution of certain anatomical features which are connected with special 

 functions. 



A text-book of general bacteriolog'y, E. O. Jordan (Phihidclphia and Lon- 

 don, 1!)0S, pp. JJ7, fig-s. 163). — This book, which is the outgrowth of a series of 

 lectures given to the students of the University of Chicago, describes the funda- 

 mental principles and methods of laboratory work as fully as possible in a jaii)- 

 iication of its kind, an exhaustive treatise within ordinary limits being impos- 

 slitle. Following a descrii»tion of methods of studying bacteria, chapters are 

 given in which llie biology of bacteria and their relations to organized life are 

 dis<-uss»'d. Tlie moriihology, cultural characters, etc., of a number of groups of 

 bacteria that cause disease in man are described at length. Chaptt'rs are given 

 on dairy l)acteriology, bacteria in the arts and industries, the bacteria of air, 

 ^'•il, and water, bacterial diseases of plants, etc. 



A bibliography of mycological literature, (1. Lindat and 1'. Svdow ( 77/r- 

 ■yiitiriis lillrnihinr nigcuUtgiva- ct Uclirnoiof/ica' nitionc hahila pra'cipuc omnium 

 t/ua- adhtti- xiripta -sinit dr miicoiugia appUcata. Lcipsic, W08, rol. 1, pt. 2, 

 ]>p. 'lOI-ltU.!). — 'I'his imblication is a continuation of the previous number ( E. S. 

 It., v.), ji. 1027), the titles listed being those of authors as far as Lyon. The 

 toi:il nimilier of papers to the conclusion of the present nnmbi-r is ]li,142. 



International catalogue of scientific literature. M — Botany (hitcrnat. Cat. 

 Nr-i. Lit., a (HKfS). pp. vm+S.30+8.',3).—Th\i^ is an author and subject cata- 

 logue of the literature relating to botany, nearly 7,(KM) titles being listal. The 

 ineihn,! ,,r tieatment is similar to that descril>ed before (E. S. II., 20, p. 4.%). 

 Tlie literature Indexed is mainly that of IIIOC. 



The development of the Uredineae and the origin of new forms, K. Fis< iieu 

 [Milt. \(itiirf. (Ic.srII. II, in, Umi, .\u. l6.t'.>-HU,>,. pp. t. Ul- 1. ',.',) .—'Uw author dis- 



