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One culture, 424, in table 8 was identified as Bad. aerogenes; 

 one culture, 464, produces acid in glucose and sucrose and two 

 cultures, 454 and 463, produce acid in glucose only. The other 

 eight cultures described in this table do not ferment any of the 

 sugars. 



Among the twelve cultures in table 9 are two, 431a and 467, 

 which produce acid in glucose, lactose and sucrose; one, 461, 

 which produces acid in glucose and lactose and one, 443, which 

 produces acid in glucose only. The remaining 8 cultures show 

 no fermentative reactions. 



(■■■. Throughout the investigation no obligate anaerobes were 

 isolated. Anaerobic cultures were made from the material 

 investigated and several cultures isolated which were at first 

 regarded as anaerobic bacteria but subsequent work showed 

 them to be facultative. This was especially true of the strepto- 

 cocci isolated from salmon. These streptococci were originally 

 isolated from anaerobic cultures and they appear to grow best 

 under anaerobic conditions. They do grow fairly well on agar 

 slants, however, and have been carried along in this work as 

 aerobic organisms. 



As a result of this study of the morphology and the cultural 

 reactions of these 79 organisms it has been possible in several 

 instances to identify as the same organism cultures from the 

 various sources and in this way to estabUsh a partial correlation 

 between the bacterial floras of sea-water, of decomposing salmon 

 and of the Alaskan canneries. This has been done where the 

 morphology and cultural reactions are such that there can be 

 no doubt that the cultures are identical even though it were 

 impossible to identify them as to group or species. This correla- 

 tion is shown in table 10. 



Cultures Ws and 325 are both the same strain of Ps.fluorescens. 

 Reference to table 1 will show the relative abundance of this 

 organism among the original 316 cultures. This organism 

 appears to be widely distributed in the sea-water since it 

 was obtained from samples collected at Ilwaco, Wash., four 

 miles off the Oregon Coast and Lynn Canal, Alaska (see map, 

 fig. 1). It was also obtained 52 tunes from the various parts of 



