166 F. C. HARRISON 



The Society also has a chart that has undergone a number of 

 revisions, and which in its present form represents what is con- 

 sidered necessary for a proper description of an organism. These 

 two contributions are excellent, but not enough. We want full 

 descriptions as per Society chart of all knouTi organisms, and we 

 want them properly named and classified according to our latest 

 classification. Here then is a splendid task for the Society, 

 a task seemingly of great magnitude, but with proper organiza- 

 tion and cooperation we should be able to surmount all obstacles, 

 and produce a new determinative bacteriology' approved by the 

 Society, and all interested in bacteriology. Such a pubUcation 

 from its intrinsic value would find a place in every laboratory and 

 succeeding generations of students and workers would rise up 

 and caU us blessed. 



We have a membership of a thousand. If each one would pledge 

 himself to give a full description of an organism assigned to him, 

 what a magnificent start it would be. I trust the Society will 

 accept this suggestion and formulate the necessary conmiittees. 



XI. TEACHING PROPAGANDA FOR BACTERIOLOGY 



A subject, the study of which may not only serve on accoimt of 

 its educational value by enlarging our knowledge of nature and 

 training the powers of observation and judgment, but also 

 because of its sheer practical utility as the servant of medicine, 

 pathology, sanitation, industry, agriculture, and household Ufe; 

 should have a well defined place in all our colleges and univer- 

 sities, and possibly in secondary schools. Yet we find that it is 

 not mentioned in the curriculum of eight of our agricultural 

 colleges. In many medical colleges it takes a subordinate place, 

 and in many institutions having comprehensive courses in botany 

 and zoology no course is given in bacteriologJ^ Surely this is 

 not right. Several past presidents of our Society have spoken 

 about the value of the subject from the educational and practi- 

 cal aspects, notably the late Prof. W. T. Sedgwick and Pro- 

 fessors Bergey, Marshall and Jordan, and there are excellent 

 references in our literature as to the place the subject ought to 



