JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS 



DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT AND DIS- 

 SEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN REGARD TO 

 THE BACTERIA AND OTHER MICRO-ORGANISMS 



Editor-in-Chief 

 C.-E. A. WINSLOW 



Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn. 



Managing Editor 

 A. PARKER HITCHENS 



Glenolden, Pa. 



C. C. Bass 

 R. E. Buchanan 

 P. F. Clark 

 H. \V. Conn 

 F. P. Gay 

 F, P. Gorham 



S. H. Aters 

 F. Bachmann 

 D. H. Bergey 

 O. Bbrghausen 

 V. Birckner 

 C. P. Brown 

 P. E. Brown 

 H. J. Conn 

 M. W. Cook 

 J. T. Emerson 



Advisory Editors 



F. C. Harrison 

 H. W. Hill 

 E. O. Jordan 

 A. I. Kendall 



C. B. LiPMAN 



C. E. Marshall 



V. A. Moore 

 M. E. Pennington 

 E. B. Phelps 

 L. F. Rettger 

 L. A. Rogers 



M. J. ROSENAU 



Chief Abstract Editor 

 G. H. Smith 



Abstract Editors 



L. W. Famulenbr 



C. P. Fitch 



D. Greenberg 

 P. B. Hadley 

 I. C. Hall 



T. L. Harkey 

 C. M. Hilliard 

 J. G. Hopkins 

 T. G. Hull 

 A. Itano 



F. M. Johns 

 I. J. Kligler 

 J. A. Kolmer 

 H. L. Lang 

 H. W. Lyall 

 W. J. MacNeal 

 E. C. L. Miller 

 E. H. Nollau 

 Zae Northrup 

 L. Pearse 



W. T. Sedgwick 

 F. L. Stevens 

 A. W. Williams 

 H. Zinsser 



E. B. Phelps 

 G. H. Robinson 

 W. Sadler 



F. L. Steven.s 

 F. W. Tanner 

 R. M. Taylor 



A. R. Ward 



B. White 



CONTENTS 



R. E. Buchanan. Studies in the Nomenclature and Classification of Bacteria. The 



Problem of Bacterial Nomenclature 591 



T. J. Murray. The Oxygen Requirements of Biological Soil Processes 597 



Raymond A. Kelser. The Preparation of Culture Media from Whole Blood 615 



Max Levine. Preliminary Note on the Classification of Some Lactose Fermenting 



Bacteria 019 



Myrtle Greenfield. A New Ice Sampler 62,3 



George D. Horton. Apparent Recovery of a Hen Infected with Baci'lary White 



Diarrhea. ("As Determined by the Macroscopic Agglutination Test) 625 



Edgard Zunz and Paul Gyorgy. Observations sur I'lnfluonce Chimique des Milieux de 

 Culture sur le Developpement et la Production de I'lndol par les Coli-Bacilles et par 



les Bacilles Typhiques 627 



I. J. Kligler. Some Regulating Factors in Bacterial Metabolism 663 



Book Review. Kolmer's Practical Textbook of Infection, Immunity and Specific 



Therapy. Hans Zinsser 673 



American Bacteriological Literature: 



Bacteriology of Soils 675 



Bacteriology of Water and Sewage 680 



Classification of Bacteria 681 



Immunology 682 



Laboratory Technique 693 



Medical Bacteriology 694 



Physiology of Bacteria 703 



Plant Pathology •. 705 



Public Health Bacteriology 706 



Index 709 



