CONTENTS 



W. T. Sedgwick: Foreword — The Genesis of a New Science — Bacteriology. . 1 



D. H. Bergey: The Pedagogics of Bacteriology, Presidential Address, 



Urbana Meeting 5 



L. F. Rettger, N. Berman, and W. S. Sturges: Further Studies on Bac- 

 terial Nutrition: The Utilization of Proteid and Non-proteid Nitrogen. 15 



J. M. Sherman: Studies on Soil Protozoa and Their Relation to the Bacterial 

 Flora. 1 35 



C. G. A. Roos: A Culture Medium for Maintaining Stock Cultures of the 

 Meningococcus 67 



M. M. Obst: Bile Compared with Lactose Bouillon for Determining the 

 Presence of B. coli in Water 73 



Society of American Bacteriologists. Abstracts of Papers Presented at 



Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Urbana, 111. December 28-30, 1915 81 



Abstracts of American Bacteriological Literature: 



Bacteriology of Pood 123 



Bacteriology of Soils 123 



Bacteriology of Water and Sewage 125 



Dairy Bacteriology 125 



Disinfection 126 



Immunology 126 



Laboratory Technique 129 



Medical Bacteriology 130 



Physiology of Bacteria 131 



Plant Pathology 132 



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