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 



Editor-in-Chief 

 C.-E. A. WINSLOW 



Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn 



A. Parker Hitchens 



Dr. Charles Krtjmwiede, Jr., Ex officio 



C. C. Bass 

 R. E. Buchanan 

 P. F. Clark 

 F. P. Gay 



F. P. GORHAM 



P. C. Harrison 



Advisory Editors 



H. W. Hill 

 E. O. Jordan 

 A. I. Kendall 

 C. B. Lipman 

 C. E. Marshall 



V. A. Moore 

 M. E.Penington 

 F. B. Phelps 

 L. F. Rettger 

 L. A. Rogers 



M. J. Rosen Atr 

 W. T. Sedgwick 

 F. L. Stevens 

 A. W. Williams. 

 H. Zinsser 



CONTENTS 



Samuel C. Prescott. Some Bacteriological Aspects of Dehydration 109 



H. J. Conn, Chairman, H. A. Harding, I. J. Kligler, W. D. Frost, M. J. Drucha, 



and H. N. Atkins. Report of the Committee on the Descriptive Chart for 1919. . 127 

 C.-E. A. Winslow, William Rothberg and Elizabeth I. Parsons. Notes on the Classi- 

 fication of the White and Orange Staphylococci 145 



Charles L. Brightman, M. R. Meachem and S. F. Acree. A Spectrophotometric Study 

 of the "Salt Effects" of Phosphates upon the Color of Phenolsulfonphthalein Salts 



and Some Biological Applications 169 



Ivan V. Shunk. A Modification of Loeffler's Flagella Stain 181 



Zae Northrup Wyant. Bouillon Cubes as a Substitute for Beef Extract or Meat in 



Nutrient Media 189 



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