CONTENTS 



Frontispiece Picture of Professor T. J. Burrill. 



In Memoriam. Thomas J. Burrill. Erwin F. Smith 269 



Resolutions adopted at the Urbana Meeting of the Society of American Bac- 

 teriologists in regard to the work of Professor Burrill 271 



W. W. Ford: Studies on Aerobic Spore-bearing Non-pathogenic Bacteria, 

 Part I. Introduction. J. B. Lawrence and W. W. Ford: Spore-bearing 

 Bacteria in Milk 273 



Robert S. Breed and W. W. Dotterrer: The Number of Colonies Allow- 

 able on Satisfactory Agar Plates 321 



Harriet Leslie Wilcox: A Modification of the Hygienic Laboratory 

 Method for the Production of Tetanus Toxin 333 



Horry M. Jones: A Method of Anaerobic Plating Permitting Observation 

 of Growth 339 



Ivan C. Hall: Testicular Infusion Agar. A Sterilizable Culture Medium 

 for the Gonococcus 343 



Gary N. Calkins: Book Review. Der Erreger der Maul-und Klauen- 



seuche, by Heinrich Stauffacher 353 



Abstracts of American Bacteriological Literature: 



Animal Pathology 357 



Bacteriology of Air and Dust 360 



Bacteriology of Foods 361 



Bacteriology of Soils 361 



Bacteriology of the Mouth 362 



Bacteriology of Water and Sewage 363 



Classification of Bacteria 364 



Disinfection 364 



Immunology * 364 



Industrial Bacteriology 372 



Laboratory Technique 373 



Medical Bacteriology 376 



Paleontology 384 



Plant Pathology 384 



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