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INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



Bacteria, numbers of, in manure, 29- 

 31 

 oxidizing carbon compounds, 96 

 oxidizing hydrogen and its com- 

 pounds, 98 

 oxidizing iron compounds, 92 

 oxidizing nitrogen compounds, 62 

 oxidizing sulfur and its compounds, 



78 

 reducing nitrates to nitrites, 180 

 reducing nitrates to ammonia, 182 

 reducing nitrates to nitrogen gas, 183 

 requiring combined nitrogen, 141 

 Bacteriaceae, 58, 78 

 Bacterio-chlorin, 83 

 Bacteriophage in nodules of legumi- 

 nous plants, 592 

 Bacterio-purpurin, 83 

 Bacteriotoxin theory, 759 

 Bacteriotoxins in soil, 859 

 Bacterium, 58 

 acidi lactici, 30, 155, 648 

 acidi urici, 212 

 aerogenes, 59, 119, 126, 153, 155, 382, 



582 

 aliphaticum, 204, 465 

 aliphaticum liquefaciens, 204, 465 

 anlhracoides, 155 

 bovista, 82 

 calco-aceticum, 212 

 caudatum, 153, 154, 642 

 cellar esolvens, 201 

 centropunctatum, 187 

 cloacae, 155 



coli, 153, 154, 155, 157, 163, 182, 184, 

 186, 209, 319, 440, 320, 382, 419, 

 492, 542, 612, 614, 631, 637, 641, 762, 

 775 

 denitrificans , 88, 185, 186, 187 

 denitrificans agilis, 186, 187 

 denitrofluorescens, 186 

 erythrogenes, 209, 211, 212, 488 

 extorquens, 646 

 filiformis aerobius, 492 

 fimi, 444 



fluorescens, 27, 30, 107, 151, 154, 182, 

 186, 203, 205, 209, 320, 323, 379, 

 464, 491, 492, 500, 514, 604, 642 



Bacterium Jluorescens liquefaciens, 97, 

 155, 186, 209, 212, 465, 490, 656, 762 



Jiuorescens pulidum, 490 



freudenreichii, 212 



fulvum, 155, 187 



guntheri, 30 



hartlebii, 186, 187 



herbicola, 30, 182 



hexacarbovorum, 97 



kirchneri, 211 



kunnemanni, 187 



lactis viscosum, 118, 120, 126, 154 



leguminosarum, 126 



lipolyticum, 204, 464 



nilrovorum, 187 



ochraceum, 154, 155 



odoratum, 212 



opalescens, 201 



parvulum, 500 



pcstis, 805 



pneumoniae, 59, 120, 126, 155 



porticensis, 182, 187 



praepollens, 186, 187 



prodigiosum, 120, 154, 163, 171, 182, 

 184, 209, 212, 383, 464, 490, 631, 

 760 



proteus (see Bad. vulgar e) 



punctatum, 154, 155 



putidum, 118, 155, 182, 545 



pyocyaneum, 97, 182, 186, 204, 212, 

 368, 418, 464, 467, 468, 485, 549, 637 



radicicola, 39, 120, 122-138, 139, 

 383,558, 593, 597, 637, 656, 708, 818, 

 823, 824 



colony formation, 130 

 isolation of, from nodules, 128 

 isolation of, from soil, 129 

 media for cultivation of, 126 

 morphology and life cycles, 130 

 motility of, 132 

 nitrogen fixation by, 592, 597 

 nodule formation by, 128 

 nomenclature, 125 

 numbers of, in soil, 129 

 physiology of, 133 

 specific differentiation of, 134 

 stages of development, 125 

 staining of, 132 



