Necrology. Dr. Alexander Francois Liautard, founder of the first veterinary medical school in this country and one of the founders of the U. S. Veterinary Medical Association, as previously noted (E. S. R., 29, p. 301), died at his home in France, April 20, age 84 years. Dr. Liautard was for many years editor of the American Veterinary Review, and throughout his life intensely interested in veterinary education. He was the author of a long list of standard text books for the veterinary profession. In 1884 he received the decoration of Chevalier du Merite Agricole from the French Government. Maurice de Vilmorin, member of Vilmorin-Andrieux & Company of Paris, France, died April 21 at the age of 69 years. He was a well known horticulturist and dendrologist, and his collection of shrubs growing at Les Barres was perhaps the most comprehensive in Europe. Frank N. Meyer, agricultural explorer for the U. S. Department of Agriculture in China, Siberia, and Turkestan for nearly ten years, has died in China. He was the introducer of hundreds of species and varieties of plants from these regions, many of great economic value. Among his most recent discoveries was the location of the original home of the chestnut bark disease. The death in France from wounds is reported of Lieut. E. J. Woodhouse of the British Army. Lieut. Woodhouse was appointed economic botanist to the Government of Bengal in 1908 and in 1911, principal of the Agricultural College of Bihar and Orissa. He had worked on several problems in economic botany and entomology, including the potato moth. Lieut. Vernon King, scientific assistant in cereal and forage crop investigations in the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has died from wounds received in the aviation service of Great Britain. The recent death is noted of K. Toyama, professor of zoology in the Imperial University of Tokio. He was a graduate of the College of Agriculture of the university in 1892 and had worked mainly on the breeding of silk worins. New Journals.-Public Roads is being issued monthly by the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It is the intention to present matters of special interest to those concerned with the construction and maintenance of roads and to supplement the bulletins of the Office by the prompt publication of the results of its experiments and other phases of its work. The initial number contains a complete record of the status of each State project submitted under the Federal Aid Road Act up to February 28, 1918, and it is expected to present a corrected list monthly. Various short articles are included, as well as a brief summary of forthcoming publications of the office. Annals of the Phytopathological Society of Japan is being published by that society. The initial number contains several articles printed in English or German, as well as Japanese; a brief historical sketch in English by M. Shirai, professor of phytopathology of the Agricultural College of the Imperial University of Tokio, on the development of phytopathology in Japan, and a considerable number of abstracts in Japanese of phytopathological articles. The Potato Magazine is being published by the Potato Association of America. The initial number contains several articles by agricultural college and Federal officials on various phases of the potato industry. ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 15 CENTS PER COPY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 PER YEAR EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. Editor: E. W. ALLEN, PH. D., Chief, Office of Experiment Stations. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny-SYBIL L. SMITH. J. D. LUCKETT. Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Patholgy Field Crops JJ. I. SCHULTE. J. D. LUCKETT. Horticulture and Forestry-E. J. GLASSON. W. E. BOYD. (W. H. EVANS, Ph. D. Economic Zoology and Entomology-W. A. HOOKER, D. V. M. LOUISE B. PRITCHETT. JD. W. MAY. Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming M. D. MOORE. (W. A. HOOKER. Veterinary Medicine SYBIL L. SMITH. Rural Engineering-R. W. TRULLINGER.1 Agricultural Education JA. DILLE. MARIE T. SPETHMANN. Indexes-M. D. MOORE. CONTENTS OF VOL. 39, No. 3. Recent work in agricultural science. Notes... SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. AGRICULTURal chemistRY—AGROTECHNY. Determination of forms of nitrogen in flesh, I, II, Thrun and Trowbridge. The decomposition of inulin and inulids in chicory root, Geslin and Wolff.. A chemical study of enzym action, Falk.. The system water and sulphates and chlorids of sodium and potassium, Blasdale. Nitrogen distribution of fibrin hydrolyzed with Fe,Cl3, Morrow and Fetzer.. 1 On leave of absence for military service. Pago. 201 300 201 201 202 202 202 202 203 203 203 203 204 204 204 204 205 205 205 205 205 206 The value of the Walker method for determining casein in milk, Agrestini... Comparison of reductase with other recent sanitary milk tests, Barthel. The reductase test for milk, Arup.... The determination of glutose in cane molasses, Pellet.. Nonrelation between purity of sugars and filtration of the sirups, Pellet.. A short handbook of oil analysis, Gill... The precipitin test for blood, Hektoen.. A new method of determining chlorids in blood, Dugardin. A method for detecting small quantities of chloretone, Aldrich. Survey of tanning materials in the Belgian Kongo, Nihoul..... Quantity and nature of the unfermentable sugar of cane molasses, Pellet... Concord grape juice: Manufacture and composition, Hartmann and Tolman... Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Chandler.. Partial correlation applied to Dakota data on weather and wheat yield, Blair.. The rainfall of 1917 (in the British Isles]...... Determination of ozone and oxids of nitrogen in the atmosphere, Usher and Rao. Reconnoissance survey of San Diego region, Cal., Holmes and Pendleton..... Soil survey of Hillsborough County, Fla., Mooney et al.. Soil survey of Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan Counties, W. Va., Latimer. Studies on capacities of soils for irrigation water, Israelsen.. Relation of mechanical analysis to moisture equivalent of soils, Smith. Moisture equivalent determinations of salt-treated soils, Sharp and Waynick.. The treatment of alkali soil, Headley.... Soil acidity as influenced by green manures, White. Changes taking place during storage of farm yard manure, Russell and Richards. The nitrogen problem and the work of the Nitrogen Products Committee. The effect of different salts on ammonia formation in soil, Koch.. Bibliography on extraction of potash from complex mineral silicates, Buck. A neglected chemical reaction and an available source of potash, Ashcroft.. The sulphuric acid situation in the United States, Skinner.. Analyses of commercial fertilizers and home mixtures, Cathcart et al...... |