118 EXPEEIMENT STATION KECORD. 



Bacteria jn milk products and other food materials, Bloch (Berlin. Klin. 

 Wchmchr., 37 (1900), No. 4, l^P- ^0,86).— The author found numbers of bacterial 

 colonies in cultures from plasmon, but an equally large number fi'om nutrose and 

 other rnilk products. 



Contribution to the morphology of the organism described as Bacterium 

 radicicola, A. Sti-tzek {Mitt. Landw. Inst. Breslau, 1900, No. 3, pp. 57-71). 



The influence of sunlight on bacteria, L. Kedzior {Arch. Hyg., 36 {1899), No. 

 4, pp. 323-334). 



Gypsum plates for the cultivation of nitrification bacteria, Y. Omelianski 

 {Centhl. Bukt. u. Par., 2. Abt., 5 {1899), No. 18-19, pp. 652-655). 



On the multiplication of yeasts -without fermentation in presence of a 

 limited quantity of air, A. Rosextiehl {Compt. Bend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 130 {1900), 

 No. 4, pp. 195-198). 



The length of generations in certain yeasts, D. P. Hoyer {Centhl. Baki. v.. 

 Par., 2. Abt., 5 {1899), No. 21, ])p. 703-705). — A large number of species of yeast 

 were studied and under the conditions of experiments the time elapsing between one 

 generation and another determined. It ranged from 3.5 hours to about 10 hours, 

 depending upon the temperature. 



On the duration of the vitality of dried yeast, H. "Will {Ztschr. Gesam. 

 Brauu'., 1899, No. 4, P- 43; abs. in Centhl. Bakt. u. Par., 2. Abt., 6 {1899), No. 14, p. 

 527) . — Yeast is said to have grown readily after having been kept in a dried state for 

 12 years and 2 months. 



Soluble ferments produced during germination of seeds having a corneous 

 endosperm, E. Bouequelot and H. Herissey {Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 130 

 {1900), No. 1, pj-). 42-44). 



The oxy-ferments of milk and saliva, R. Di'pouy {Jour. Pharm. et Chim., 6. 

 ser., 8 {1898), 'pp- 551-553). 



On the secretion of diastases, Dienert {Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 129 

 {1899), No. 1, pp. 63, 64). 



On the so-called indigo fermentation and new indigo plants, H. Molisch 

 {Sitzher. Math. Naturw. CI. K. Akad. Wiss. [Vienna'\, 107 (1898), No. 7, pp. 747-776. 

 pi 1). 



The action of formaldehyde on enzyms and certain proteids, C. L. Bliss and 

 F. G. Novy (Jour. Expt. Med., 4 (1899), No. 1, pp. 47-80). 



METEOROLOGY. 



Monthly Weather Review ( U. jS. Dept. Agr. , Weather Bureau, 

 Montldij Weather lieview, 2S (1900), Has. i, pp. 1-^8, charts 10; 2. 2n'>' 

 51-93, pi. 1, Jigs. 5, charts 11; 3, pp. 95-139, charts 10). — In addition 

 to the usual reports on forecasts, warnings, weather and crop condi- 

 tions, meteorological tables and charts, these numbers contain the 

 following articles and notes: 



No. 1, a special contribution on Some of the results of the international cloud work 

 for the United States, by F. H. Bigelow; and notes by the editor on wireless teleg- 

 raphy, lightning rods, a kite and balloon station near Berlin, Germany, South Afri- 

 can meteorology, fro.st work in South Africa, Prof. Henry Allen Hazen, winterkilling 

 of fruit trees, farmers' bulletins, the soil and the crops, errors in school books, fruit 

 protection in Florida, historical events in meteorology, irrigation in winter, the 

 Weather Bureau and commerce on the Great Lakes, the high stations of Wyoming, 

 winter thunderstorms in Mississippi, snowfall in the Rocky Mountains, the relation 

 of temperature to color, Meteorological Congress at Paris, September 10-16, 1900, 



