510 Scientific Intelligence. 
high scientific value, on practical agriculture. The author under- 
stands his subject through all the wide range of requirements, 
and largely as the result of personal investigation and experi- 
mental trials. He commences with the relations of soil and air 
to the plant, treats of the atmosphere as a source of plant food, 
of movements of water in the soil, of tillage, of the wide subject 
of manures or fertilizers, as to kinds, preparation, effects, con- 
ditions of use, materials in the soil, nearly 500 pages being de- 
voted to these and related topics; also of the rotation of crops, 
the character and needs of various kinds of farms, farming and 
crops. The work is, hence, one for the practical farmer, the 
landscape gardener and the student of scientific agriculture, and 
also for the large class not farmers who like to know what is 
going on in their cultivated grounds, and what are the best 
methods of improvement. Professor Storer’s Preface gives high 
praise to the work and works of Professor 8. W. Johnson, of 
New Haven; and the opinion expressed we know to be fully 
reciprocated by the agricultural department at Yale, with refer- 
ence to the labors of Professor Storer of Harvard. 
4, Studies from the Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry, 
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, for the year 1885— 
86. Kdited by Professor R. H. Cuirrenpren, Ph.D. Volume II, 
236 pp. 8vo. New Haven, 1887. (From the Transactions of the 
Connecticut Academy, vol. vii.)—This volume, like its prede- 
cessor, noticed in the Journal for August, 1886, bears witness to 
the unusual degree of activity in original research in Professor 
Chittenden’s laboratory. The papers contained in it are ten in 
number. The first, on globulin and globulose bodies, and the 
second, on peptones (republished from the Zeitschrift fiir Biologie) 
are by Professors Kiihne (Heidelberg) and Chittenden, and form 
a continuation of previous work by the same authors upon albu- 
mose bodies, and at the same time are a commencement of a study 
of the various primary cleavage products formed by the action of 
pepsin from the purer albumins. The other papers are upon a 
variety of more or less closely related topics, the dehydration of 
glucose in the stomach and intestines, by Professor Chittenden ; 
on the influence of uranium salts on the amylolytic action of sa- 
liva, and the proteolytic action of pepsin and trypsin, by Professor 
Chittenden and M. T. Hutchinson; the relative distribution of 
antimony in the organs and tissues of the body, also on the influ- 
ence of antimonious oxide on metabolism, by Professor Chitten- 
den and Joseph A. Blake, and a number of others. It has not 
often been possible for a laboratory to give to the world within 
a short period so important a series of contributions as are con- 
tained in these two volumes. 
Il. Grontocy AND NatuRAL HIstTory. 
1. Zo all American Geologists—At a meeting of the Amer- 
ican Committee (elected by the Standing Committee of the 
