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Meteorological chart of the Great Lakes. A. J. Henry and N. B. Conger 735 



Temperature and relative humidity data. W. B. Stockman 736 



Meteorology of Southern Asia and neighboring countries, J. Eliot 736 



British rainfall, 1904 736. 



Chlorin in rain water 737 



Comp< isition of Barbados rainfall 737 



Contribution to rainfall regime of region of Boulogne, G. Ventura 737 



Rainfall in the agricultural districts, G. G. Bond 737 



Thunder and lightning, C. Flammarion, trans, by W. Mostyn 737 



The pulse of the atmospheric circulation, \Y. X. Shaw 737 



Investigation of the upper air t 737 



Improved methods for rinding altitude and azimuth 737 



Daily river stages at river gage stations, 1^00-1904, H. C. Frankenlield 737 



Report on the underground waters of Louisiana, W. C. Stubbs et al 738 



Influence of summer rains on the flow of springs, Houllier 738 



Water softening at Oberlin, Ohio, W. B. Gerrish 738 



The sterilization of water by ozone, A. Steens 738 



Purification of water by copper sulphate, D. D. Jackson 738 



New method for detecting pollution of water-, L. Heim 738 



Water supply and sewerage 739 



The bacteria' of the air, water, and soil, E. Bodin 739 



SOIL! FERTILl/ER-v 



Field operations of Bureau of Soils, 1904 (sixth report), M. Whitney et al 



Recent work of the American Soil Bureau, E. J. Russell 



Soil investigation and technology of soils, E. Ramann 



Mineral constituent of soil solution. F. K. Cameron and J. M. Bell 



Comparison of results of cultures in paraffined puts with field results, H. J. 

 Wheeler et al 



I ^productive soils. T. Bu'ler-Chatelan 



Some changes in soil under influence of earthworms, A. Murinov 



Influence of weak electric current on solubility, etc., M. Yegorov 



Hygroscopicity. heat evolved on moistening (Benetzungswiirme i,and mechan- 

 ical analysis of soils, A. Mitscherlich 



Soil and sul >s< »il of the Yeliko-Anadolsk forest, X. N. Stepanov 



I >i ies the n< >rthern forest dry the soil? D. M. Kravchinski 



On the origin of moors. C. A. Weber 



Calcium carbonate in some soils of Valpantena (Verona), R. De Polo 



Volatilization of ammonium salts in soils, H. Wangnick 



Soils and fertilizers, H. Snyder 



Fertilizer inspection, C. D. Woods and J. M. Bartlett 



Analyses < >f c. •nnnercial fertilizers, M. B. Hardin 



Commercial fertilizers, H. J. Wheeler et al : 



The utilization of atmospheric nitrogen, O. X. Witt 



Nitric acid and nitrates from the nitrogen of the air 



Calcium nitrate manufacture in Norway 



The new Xorwegian industry of manufacture of ''lime niter" 



Nitrate « >f calcium factory for Norway , H. Bordewich 



Utilization « »f the nitrogen of the air 



Production of nitric acid from the air, M. Bodenstein 



Xitric acid from atmospheric nitrogen, F. Winteler 



Utilization of the nitrogen of the air, A. Xeuburger 



Lime nitrogen and its fertilizing value, H. Immendorff and < >. Thielebein 



Fixation of nitrt >gen and electrochemistry, P. A. Guye 



Agriculture and the nitrogen supply, L. Grandeau. 



The nitrogen balance of soils 



Note on the fate of calcium cyanamid in the soil, S. F. Ashby 



Calcium cyanamid (lime nitrogen), L. Grandeau 



J'xperiments with lime nitrogen. 



Experiments with lime nitrogen, von Seelhorst and A. Muther 



Fertilizing value of calcium cyanamid (lime nitrogen), L. Grandeau 



Fife conditions of nitrogen-collecting bacteria, H. Fischer 



Inoculation of legumes, K. F. Kellerman and T. R. Robinson 



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