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 



Editorial Board 



A. Parker Hitchens 



Editor-in-Chief 

 C.-E. A. WINSLOW 



Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn. 



R. E. Buchanan, Ex officio 



C. C. Bass 

 R. E. Buchanan 

 P. F. Clark 

 F. P. Gay 

 F. P. Gorham 

 F. C. Harrison 



Advisory Editors 



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. Rettqer 

 L. A. Rogers 



M. J. Rosenau 

 W. T. Sedgwick 

 F. L. Stevens 

 A. W. Williams 

 H. Zinsser 



CONTENTS 



Oscar Tbague. The Toxicity of Victoria Blue 4 R. for B. Paratyphosus A., B. Para- 



typhosus B. and B. Enteriditis 1 



Ivan C. Hall. Automatic Water Level for Arnokl Sterlizer.s 7 



E. M. Meyer. An Aerobic Spore-Forming Bacillus Giving Gas in Lactose Broth 



Isolated in Routine Water Examination 9 



Paul W. Allen. A Simple Method for the Classification of Bacteria as to Diastase 



Production 15 



Kan-Ichiro Morishima. A Simple and Practical Medium for Diiferentiating B. 



Typhosis, B. Paratyphosus A., B. Paratyphosus B., B. Enteritidis, and B. Coli.. 19 



R. G. Perkins. A New Apparatus for Obtaining Simultaneous Cultures of any De- 

 sired Age for Comparative Study 23 



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



V. Subgroups and Genera of the Bacteriaceae 27 



Fred W. Tanner. A Study of Green Fluorescent Bacteria from Water 63 



Abstracts of American and foreign bacteriological literature appears in a separate 

 journal, Abstracts of Bacteriology, published bi-monthly by the Williams & Wilkins Com- 

 pany, under the editorial direction of the Society of American Bacteriologists. Price, $5.00 

 North America; $5.50 elsewhere. 



