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The interpretations of chemical analyses for farmers, II. Im.ii Transvaal 

 Agr. Jour., ', {1906), No. 14, pp. 8S0 357). The object of this article ia " to explain, 

 in as popular a manner as possible, the practical meaning of analyses of some of the 

 more importanl substances produced or consumed in agriculture." The main topics 

 discussed are soils, manures, feeding stuffs, and antiseptics. 



Agricultural chemistry during the second half of the year 1905, \Y. ZiEL- 

 btorff {Chem. Ztschr., 5 {1906), Nos. .',. pp. 78 75; • >. pp. 99 101; <;, pp. 128, l:',\. 

 Brief reviews are given of articles relating to the nutrition of plants and animals. 



Thirteenth annual report of the committee on atomic weights. Deter- 

 minations published in 1905, F. W. Clahke {Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, ?8 i 1906), 

 No. 3, pp. ?98 815). 



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Outlines of tropical climatology, <i. M. Giles {Climate and Health in Hot Coun- 

 tries. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1904, />'■ ■'. /'/'• 109). This arti- 

 cle discusses the general characteristics of tropical climates, and the more importanl 

 data determining the character of such climates, including temperature (mean and 

 range), relative humidity, amount and distribution of rainfall, cloudiness, and 

 amount, daily distribution, and direction of the wind, and summarizes all available 

 data bearing upon the special characteristics of the climate of the countries lying in 

 the Mediterranean Basin, including Algeria, Malta, Cyprus, and Egypt; other regions 

 of the African Continent, including Soudan, Abyssinia, region of the Greal Lakes, 

 Kongo Basin, West Coast, Sierra Leone, Gulf of Guinea, East Coast, Madagascar, 

 Mauritius, Red Sea and its coasts including Somaliland; the Asiatic Continent, includ- 

 ing Palestine, Persian Gulf region, Arabian Peninsula, India and Ceylon, [ndo- 

 Malay Peninsula, straits Settlements, Siam, Cochin China, China, .Malay Archipel- 

 ago; Australia, Pacific [slands, the Southern United states. Mexico, Central America 

 and the Isthmus of Panama, West Indies. Bermuda, Madeira, and various places in 

 South America. 



Monthly Weather Review {Mo. Weather Rev., 83 • 1905), Nos. W, pp. 515 570, 

 figs. 8, charts 11; 18, pp. XV 571-591, charts 8).- In addition to the usual reports on 

 forecasts, warnings, weather and crop conditions, meteorological tables and charts 

 for the month of December, L905, recent papers bearing on meteorology, recent 

 additions to the Weather Bureau library, etc., No. 12 contains special contributions 

 on Doctor Margules on the Energy of Storms, by S. T. Taniura; Air and Water 

 Temperatures, by W. F. Cooper: International Meteorological Definitions and 

 Symbols, by E. R. Miller; Deposil of [ce Columns (rllus.), by E. R. .Miller: The 

 Climate of Madison, Wis. (illus.), by J. L. Bartleti (seep. 941); Tornado [nsurance 

 (illus.), by II. E. Simpson: Norway's Contributions to the Natural Sciences, by 

 R. s. N. Sartz; and A Visit to European Observatories, by G. J. O'Connor; and notes 

 on the mild weather of December, L905, meteorology in India, meteorological maps 

 for school use, Thomas R. Rodman, meteorology in Holland, a large meteor. 

 Weather Bureau men as instructors, .special meteorological stations for special 

 studies, and cyclone- and anticyclones. 



No. 13 contains a table of content-, list of correction-, additions, and changes, and 

 an index for volume 33; a re poet of the Forecast Division; report of the Chief of the 

 Weather Bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905; and a summary of observa- 

 tions on pressure, temperature, precipitation, humidity, cloudiness, and other 

 meteorological phenomena "based essentially upon data received from about 166 

 regular Weather Bureau stations, :!:; regular Canadian station-, and from such 

 climate and crop section- as have forwarded their annual summaries in time." 



The mean pressure of air departed considerably from the normal during the year, 

 being "belowthe normal in Maine. Vermont, northern New Hampshire, extreme 

 eastern Massachusetts, the Peninsula of Florida, the western portion- of the southern 



