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Recent economic papers published by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture are : — Husmann, the manufacture and preservation of unfer- 

 mented grape must, {Bulletin No. 24, Bureau of Plant Industry) and 

 Bond and Keeney, Irrigation of rice in the United States {Bulletin 

 No. 113, Office of Experiment Stations). 



A paper by Emerson, giving a preliminary account of variation in 

 bean hybrids, is separately printed from the 15th Annual Report oi 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska. 



A new forestry publication, The Forestry Quarterly, has been 

 started from the New York State College of Forestry, at Cornell 

 University. The first number appeared in October. 



A practical analysis of farm forestry, by Chamberlain, is published, 

 with numerous illustrations, in Country Life in America for November. 



Papers on the Wilt disease of the Cowpea and its control, by 

 Orton, and a Cowpea resistant to root knot, by Webber, are pub- 

 lished as Bulletin No. i 7 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Oudemans and Koning have distributed, in the form of separates 

 from the Archives Neerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Nalurelles, a 

 prodromus of a mycologic flora obtained by cultures on gelatine 

 media of material derived from humus at Spanderswoud near Bus- 

 sum. The paper is illustrated by 30 plates, mostly devoted to new 

 and brightly colored species of molds. 



A German variety of Anthurus borealis is described and figured 

 by Hennings in the September-October Beiblatt zur " Hedwigia." 



No. 105 of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales consists of several articles on Bacteria associated with the 

 sugar cane, as well as other matter of botanical interest. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle, of November 1st, contains description 

 and figure of a convenient little vest-pocket micrometer for handy 

 measurements, devised by Sir Joseph Hooker. 



