JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS 



DEVOTED TO THE AOVANCEMENT AND DIS- 

 SEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN REGARD TO 

 THE BACTERIA AND OTHER MICRO-ORGANISMS 



Editorial Board 



Editor-in-ChxeJ 

 C.-E. A. WINSLOW 



Yale Medical School. New Haven, Conn. 



A. Parker Hitchbns F. C. PIarrison, Ex officio 



Principal. Mac Donald College, 



P. Q., Canada 



Advisory Editors 



C. C. Bass H. W. Hill V. A. Moore M. J. Rosenau 



R. E. B0CHANAN E. O. Jordan M. E.Penington W. T. Sedgwick 



P. F. Clark A. I. Kendall F. B. Phelps F. L. Stevens 



F. P. Gay C. B. Lipman L. F. Rettger A. W. Williams 



F. P. GoRHAM C. E. Marshall L. A. Rogers H. Zinsser 

 F. C. Harrison 



CONTENTS 



F. C. Harrison. Our Society 149 



Victor Burke, \otes on the Oram SUxin with Description of a New Method 159 



B.1RNETT Cohen. Disinfection Studies. The Effects of Temperature and Hydrogen 



Ion Concentration upon the Viability of Bact. coli and Bact. typhosum in Water. 183 

 Selman a. Waksm.^n. Microorganisms Concerned in the O.xidation of Sulfur in the 



Soil. I. Introductory 231 



Selman a. Waksman .ixd ,I. S. Joffe. Microorganisms Concerned in the O.xidation 

 of Sulfur in the Soil. II. Thiobacilhis Thiooxidans, a New Sulfur-o.xidizing Or- 

 ganism Isolated from the Soil 239 



E. B. Fred and W. H. Peterson. The Production of Pink Sauerkraut by Yeasts. . . . 257 

 CosTA.vTiNO GoRiNi. Studies on the Biology of Lactic Acid Bacteria: a Summary of 



Personal Investigations 27^1 



L. D. Bushnell. A Method for the Cultivation of .Vnaorobes 277 



L. D. Bushnell. Influence of Vacuum upon Growth of Some Aerobic Spore-Bearing 



Bacteria 283 



H. R. Baker. Substitution of Brom-Thymol-Bluc for Litmus in Routine Laboratory 



Work 301 



W. A. Wall and .A. H. Robertson. The Use of Domestic Methylene Blue in Staining 

 Milk by the Breed Method , 307 



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