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Ten lectures on biochemistry of muscle and nerve, W. I). Halliburton 

 [Philadelphia: I'. BtaMston' 8 Son >v- Co., 1904,pp. XVI 160, pis. 8, figs. 17; rev. in Jour. 

 Amer. CJiem. Soc, .'? (1905), No. I, pp. M8-450). The topics considered have to do 

 with muscle ferments, pigments, glycogen, lactic acid, creatinic, and phosphocarnic 

 acid, the chemical changes accompanying contraction, muscle proteids, the meta- 

 bolism of nerve, coagulation of nerve proteids, the chemical changes in nerve during 

 degeneration and regeneration, and related topics. The volume embodies the 

 author's opinions based <ui the results of his investigations. 



Miscellaneous analyses, ( '. II. Jones and 1". M. Hollisteb | Vermont Sta. Rpt. 

 1904, pp. $57-461). — Analyses are reported of 20 samples of materials furnishing 

 nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash, L5 samples of wood ashes, 2 samples of home- 

 mixed fertilizers, 2 samples of Permian guano, I samples of muck, and 1 sample 

 each of barley and weed silage, oats and pea silage, foul seed, bone and lime, dry 

 waste and greasy waste Erom a woolen mill, hen manure, weed killer, ami maple 

 BUgar. 



Report of the chemist: Division of foods and feeding", J. B. Lindsey i Massa- 

 chusetts Sta. Rpt. 1904, PP- 87-44). — In this part of the report statements are made 

 concerning the extent and character of the work done during the year. Of 2,026 

 pieces of glassware examined in the execution of the dairy law, 200 were found 

 inaccurately graduated. 



Report on general work in the chemical laboratory, ('. A. Goessmann 

 | Massachusetts Sta. Rpt. 1904, pp. 104-110). — Brief notes on the examination of wood 

 ashes, lime ashes, and miscellaneous material, and on phosphatic slag and experi- 

 ments with native phosphates. 



By fusing 1 part of Canadian apatite, containing 31.22 percent of phosphoric acid, 

 with 4 parts of a mixture of 23 parts of sodium carbonate and 39 parts of potassium 

 earbonate, 3.68 per cent of the phosphoric acid was made soluble in water and 26.78 

 per cent soluble in neutral ammonium citrate, leaving only 0.7»> per cent insoluble. 

 By fusing 1 part of the apatite with only 1.15 parts of the carbonate mixture (the 

 theoretical amount required to convert the phosphate into soluble form), 2.56 per 

 cent of the phosphoric acid was made soluble in water and 15.96 per cent soluble in 

 citrate solution. Boiling the phosphate in solutions of the carbonates of various 

 strengths showed little effect in rendering the phosphoric acid soluble. 



Proceedings of the twenty-first annual convention of the Association of 

 Official Agricultural Chemists, held at St. Louis, Mo., September 26, 27, 

 and 28, 1904, edited by II. W. Wiley ( U. S. Dept. Agr., lh<r. Chem. Bui. 90, pp. 

 2~>4). — This is the official report of the proceedings of the convention. A summar- 

 ized account of the meeting has been given ( E. S. R., 16, p. 320), and a circular of 

 the Bureau containing extracts from the proceedings noted (E. S. R., 1<>, p. 539). 



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Monthly Weather Review ( Mo. Weatfa r Rev., $8 1 1905), No*. /', pp. W-18S,figs. 6, 



churls IS; •"', j)/i. 188-282, figs. 16, charts 10). — In addition to the usual reports on fore- 

 casts, warnings, weather and crop conditions, meteorological tables and charts for the 

 months of April and May, 1905, recent papers bearing on meteorology, recent addi- 

 tions to the Weather Bureau library, etc., these numbers contain the following arti- 

 cles and notes: 



No. b — Special contributions on Studies on the Diurnal Periods in the Lower Strata 

 of the Atmosphere — III, The Diurnal Periods of the Vapor Tension, the Electric 

 Potential, and Coefficient of Dissipation, by V. II. Bigelow; The Observations with 

 Kites at the Blue Hill Observatory, L897-1902, by K. II. Bigelow; .Mathematical 

 Theory of the Nocturnal Cooling of the Atmosphere (illus.), by S. T. Tamura; The 



