584 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



iuvestigatious as applied to the practice of malcing clieeses of tlae Brie and 

 Cameiubert types. 



The intlueiiees of temperature, acidity, ferments, and other factors on the 

 resulting product are considered in detail. The ferments are classified accord- 

 ing to their influence on the curd, as follows: (1) The lactic-acid ferments 

 which act on the milk sugar; (2) the molds or combustion ferments which de- 

 stroy milk sugar and lactic acid and arrest the activity of the lactic ferment; 

 and (3) the alkaline ferments which destroy the remaining sugar and also 

 attack the lower nitrogenous compounds. The most important ferments for 

 the cheese maker are those which will destroy milk sugar but leave the nitro- 

 genous products intact. The defects of cheese by the development of undesir- 

 able organisms, or by the too luxuriant growth of the desirable ones, are dis- 

 cussed at length ; also the influence of the quality of milk and the importance 

 of pasteurization. 



Fancy cheese in America, C. A. Publow {Chicago, IDIO, pp. 96, pis. 3, figs. 

 7,5). — This book describes the process of the manufacture of casein and the 

 following varieties of cheese: Cream, club, cottage, Neufchatel, Ricotto, Port 

 du Salut, Pont I'Eveque, brick. Brie, Camembert. Oka, Isigny, Limburg, Munster, 

 Caciocavallo, Stilton, Gorgonzola, Roquefort, pineapple, Edam, Gouda, Swiss, 

 Cheddar, skim-milk Cheddar, buttermilk, washed-curd Cheddar, stirred curd, 

 goat's milk, caraway-potato, sandwich-nut, olive-cream, and pimento. 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Biolog'y, g'eneral and medical, J. McFarland (Philadelphia and London, 

 IDlO, pp. Ji'iO, pis. 5, figs. 1^1). — This work takes up the subject under the fol- 

 lowing headings: Cosmic relations of living matter, origin of life, criteria of 

 life, manifestations of life, the cell, cell division, higher organisms, reproduction, 

 ontogenesis, conformity to type, divergence, structural relationship, blood rela- 

 tionship, parasitism, infection and immunity, mutilation and regeneration, 

 grafting and senescence, decadence, and death. 



Lectures in regard to infection and immunity, P. T. Mulleb, (Vorlesungen 

 iibcr Difclitioii iiiid IinmunUitt. Jena, 1010, 3. cd., rev. and enh. pp. XI-\-.'i51, 

 figs. 25).— The various chapters in this work treat of the following subjects: 

 Sources of infection; the bacterial poisons; distribution and. localization of the 

 poisons in the body ; incubation period and virulence ; behavior of micro-organ- 

 isms in the infected animal body ; phagocytosis ; the bactericidal and globulicidal 

 activities of the body fluids ; the bactericidal and globulicidal activities of 

 serum ; the opsonins ; active immunization and its results — the antibodies ; anti- 

 bodies, II ; nature and the quantitative relation of the binding of antigens and 

 antibodies, I ; quantitative relation of the binding between toxin and antitoxin 

 (II — Ehrlich's toxin analysis; lysins and antilysins) ; agglutinins and precipi- 

 tins; Ehrlich's side-chain theory; varieties of side-chain theories; varieties of 

 antitoxic immunity ; anaphylaxis ; the kinds of antibacterial immunities — 

 diminution of resistance; treatment of infectious diseases; the practical results 

 of protective vaccination and serum therapy; the use of the immunity reactions 

 for diagnostic purposes; and the application of immunity to certain problems 

 of physiology, pathology, and general biology. 



General register for Zeitschrift fiir Immunitatsforschung und experi- 

 nientelle Therapie, E. Friedberger and E. Ungermann (Zeitschrift fiir Immu- 

 nitatsforschung und experimenteUe Therapie. Register iilyer die Literatur des 

 Jahres 1909. Jena, 1910, pp. 111+152). — This is the general author and sub- 

 ject index for the year 1909. 



In regard to the toxicity of heterologous sera and critera of ana- 

 phylaxis, A. BiEDL and R. Keaus (Ztschr. Immunitdtsf. u. Expt. Ther., I, 



