996 



INDEX 



Alcohol, microorganisms of, 635 



in milk, 466 



as preservative, 557 



saccharine raw materials of, 632 



sources of, 631 



starchy raw materials of, 633 



uses of, 631 

 Alcoholase, 208, 214 

 Alcoholic fermentation, 234 



equation of, 225 

 Ales, 622 



Aleuria cerea, ascus development, \\ 

 Alexins, 705 



Alfalfa, stem blight of, 951 

 Algae in soil, 364 

 Alkalinity, 161 

 Allorhina nitida, 907 

 Alternaria, general characters, 57 



tenuis, 362 



Aluminum in soil, 425 

 Amboceptor, 706 



anti-, 707 



American foul brood, 920 

 Amidase, 208, 215 

 Amino-acetic acid, 241 

 Amino-acids, as food, 223 



production of, 241 

 Amins, production of, 241 

 Amitosis, 28, 34 



in yeasts, 66 

 Ammonia, as food, 222, 223 



oxidation, 201 



production of, 241 



transformation, 398 

 Ammonification, 383 



climatic conditions, influence of, 384 



efficiency, 388 



efficiency of species. 387 



mechanism of, 384 



by molds in soil, 361 



numbers involved in, 385 



rate of, 387 



soil conditions, influence of, 384 



species involved in, 385 

 Amoeba (See also entamceba.) 



buccalis, 594 



Amoeba, coli, 66 1 



in faeces, 599, 601 



diplomitotica, protomitosis of, 31 



dysenteries, in intestine, 600, 601 



froschi, protomitosis of, 31 



histolytica, 600 



Umax, cyst of, 24 



mucicola, mitosis of, 32 

 protomitosis of, 31 



polypodia, 128 

 schizogony in, 27 



proteus, 197 



terricola, 365 



tetragena, 66 1 



vespertilio, 124 

 Amoebic dysentery, 876 

 Amylase, 208, 237 

 Amylobacter, 376 

 Amylomyces rouxii, 50 

 Amyloplastids, 20 

 Amylo process, 633 

 Anabolism, 200, 203 



enzymic theory of, 217 

 Anaerobic organisms, facultative / 228 



obligate, 228 



in soil, 350 



in wine, 609 

 Anaerobic tank, 342 

 Analysis of milk, 470 



of water, 321 

 Anaphase, 28 

 Anaphylaxis, 684 

 Anaplasma marginale, 898 

 Anaplasmosis, 898 

 Ang-quac, 56 

 Anguillula aceti, 647 

 Anion, 159, 160 

 Anisogamous fertilization, 131 

 Anode, 160 

 Anopheles, 893 

 Antagonism, 426 

 Antheridium, 39 

 Anthrax, 801-806 



symptomatic, 839-841 



vaccination, 805 



vaccine, 735 



