ANNOUNCEMENT 



Although there are numerous journals in the United 

 States that deal with various special phases of bac- 

 teriology (as applied to Medicine, Sanitary Science, Agri- 

 culture and the like), there has been no journal in the Eng- 

 lish language to represent the science as a whole. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists has estab- 

 lished the Journal of Bacteriology as its official organ 

 and as a medium for the discussion of the more general 

 problems of the science — the structure and physiology 

 of the microbes, the inter-relationships of microbic types, 

 the effects of physical and chemical agents upon microbic 

 life, the mutual interactions of microbes growing together 

 in various media, the nutritional needs and products of 

 metabolic activity of various microbes, and new methods 

 of laboratory technique— and similar advances in knowl- 

 edge which are so fundamental as to be of vital interest 

 to workers in all parts of this great field. 



The Journal of Bacteriology will publish abstracts 

 of all of the papers read at the meetings of the Society 

 and will print the more important of them in full, but 

 its columns will be open for the publication of suitable 

 communications by other persons whether members of 

 the Society or not. It will include in its scope not only 

 the bacteria but other related micro-organisms, yeasts, 

 molds, protozoa, etc. While it is planned to make the 

 Journal in particular an organ for the more fundamental 

 and general aspects of bacteriology, it will necessarily 

 include many papers whose interest is mainly technical, 

 particularly in those fields of bacteriology which have 

 now no satisfactory organ of publication at their disposal. 



The Journal will include not only original papers but 

 also abstracts of bacteriological literature published else- 

 where. The abstracts will at first be limited to papers 

 published in the United States and Canada, and it is 

 hoped will cover this field with reasonable completeness 

 beginning with papers pubhshed since January 1, 1916. 

 Later on the abstract department will probably be broad- 

 ened to include the foreign literature. 



