10 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



On the use of sodium carbonate and oxalate in acidimetry, S. P. L. Soren- 

 sex and A. C. Andersen (Ztschr. Analyt. ('hem., 44 {1905), No. .3-4, pp. 156-184).— 

 Investigations are reported which, it is claimed, show the reliability of these sub- 

 stances as means of titrating: acids if a gas flame containing sulphur is not used with 

 the first, and corrections for impurities made for the second. 



Report of the chemical department of the Swedish Moor Culture Station, 

 1903-4, H. von Feilitzen (Svenska Mosskulturfor. Tidskr., 20 {1905), No. 3, pp. 

 157-183, figs. 4).— The report, which covers the period from November 15, 1903, to 

 December 31, 1904, gives the results of analyses made during the year of soils, soil 

 amendments, fertilizers, crops, and technical moorland products. Mews of the lab- 

 oratories of the station are also given, with plan of the rooms and invertories. — p. w. 

 woll. 



Progress in the field of agricultural chemistry during 1904, A. Stutzer 

 (Chem. Ztg.,29 {1905), No. JO, pp. 257-261). — A review, with numerous references 

 to literature, of investigations in chemistry as applied to soils, plant production and 

 physiology, fertilizers, animal physiology, feeding stuffs, soil bacteriology, and 

 methods of agricultural analysis. 



Review of foreign work in agricultural chemistry, C. AY. Harrison {Jmir. 

 Amer. Chem. Soc, 27 {1905), Xo. 6, pp. 761-776). — This is a brief and partial review 

 of articles relating to the chemistry of fertilizers, soils, field crops, dairying, and ani- 

 mal feeding which have appeared in foreign publications during the last few yearn. 



METEOROLOGY —WATER. 



Monthly Weather Review {Mo. Weather Her., S3 {1905), Xos. 1, pp. 1-40, figs. 3, 

 charts 11; 2, pp. 41-84, figs. 3, charts 17; 3, pp. 85-126, figs. 3, charts 12).— In addi- 

 tion to the usual reports on forecasts, warnings, weather and crop conditions, mete- 

 orological tables and charts for the months of January, February, and March, 1905, 

 recent papers bearing on meteorology, recent additions to the Weather Bureau 

 Library, etc., these numbers contain the following articles and notes: 



No. 1. — Special contributions on Escape of Gases from the Atmosphere, by G. J. 

 Stoney; The Coordinates of the United States Weather Bureau Station at Mount 

 Weather, Va. (illus.), by H. II. Kimball; The Proposed Competition in Forecasting 

 at Liege, by B. Brunhes; Solar Halo of February 3, 1905, at Washington, D. C. 

 (illus.), by E. R. Miller; Meteorological Charts of the Indian Ocean, by C. F. 

 Talman; Earthquakes of January and February, 1905, by C. F. Marvin; and Dr. 

 J. O. Harris, by W. G. Burns; and notes on apparatus for instruction in physics and 

 meteorology, a river and flood service on the Grand River of Michigan (illus.), 

 Weather Bureau men as instructors, methods of measuring duration of rainfall, and 

 low temperature at Thompson Hill, Conn. 



No. 2. — Special contributions on A Relation Between Autumnal Rainfall and the 

 Yield of Wheat of the Following Year— Preliminary Note, by W. N. Shaw (E. S. R., 

 16, p. 955); Contributions to Marine Meteorology; High Water in the Great Lakes 

 (illus. ), by A. J. Henry; Unusual Weather at Dodge, Ivans., by E. D. Emigh; Studies 

 on the Diurnal Periods in the Lower Strata of the Atmosphere — I, The Diurnal 

 Periods of the Temperature (illus.), by F. H. Bigelow; and Mathematical Theory of 

 Ice Formation, by S. T. Tamura; and notes on the fourth international conference 

 on aerial research, the Meteorologia generate di Luigi de Marchi, Pernter's theory 

 of the rainbow (illus.), meteorology in Haiti, and Weather Bureau men as 

 instructors. 



No. 3. — Special contributions on Application of Mathematics in Meteorology, by 

 F. H. Bigelow (E. S. R., 15, p. 20); Tornado in Eastern Alabama, March 20, 1905 

 (illus.), by F. P. Chaffee; Studies on the Diurnal Periods in the Lower Strata of the 

 Atmosphere — II, The Diurnal Periods of the Barometric Pressure, by F. H. Bigelow; 



