PREFACE TO SEVENTH EDITION XI 



NOTE 



The Board of Trustees of Bergey's Manual wish to record their profound 

 sorrow at the death on February 10, 1956, of Dr. Robert S. Breed, Chairman of 

 the Board of Trustees and Editor-in-Chief of the Manual. Most regrettable is 

 the fact that he did not live to see in printed form the results of his untiring 

 and devoted labor. At the time of his death, most of the manuscript for the 

 seventh edition had been placed in the hands of the publisher; the remainder was 

 in such shape that it could be promptly submitted. The Board of Trustees of 

 the Bergey Trust, including the Board of Editors, wish to pay tribute to the 

 devotion, energy and skill of Dr. Breed over a period of many years, as shown 

 in the organization of better bacterial nomenclature and classification. The 

 science of microbiology is his debtor. 



Reconciliation of the nomenclature used in the seventh edition of the Manual 

 with the provisions of the revised International Code of Nomenclature of the 

 Bacteria and Viruses had not been entirely completed by Dr. Breed. As far as 

 possible, these discrepancies have been corrected before publication. 



The death of Dr. Breed leaves the Editorial Committee without a chairman 

 and editor-in-chief. The Board of Trustees is unanimous in the belief that a suc- 

 cessor to Dr. Breed should be found outside its present membership. Dr. Breed 

 was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Following his death, reorganization 

 of the Board was undertaken by Dr. Conn, as Treasurer, and Dr. Buchanan was 

 designated as Chairman. The latter has agreed to serve until publication of the 

 seventh edition of Bergey's Manual and of the first edition of the companion 

 volume, planned by Dr. Breed and christened by him the Index Bergeyana. 

 It is recognized to be a matter of urgency and diflficulty to replace Dr. Breed 

 with an editor-in-chief for the eighth edition and to find a means of making this 

 onerous responsibility something more than the labor of love it always was to him. 



E. G. D. Murray 

 N. R. Smith 

 H. J. Conn 



R. E. Buchanan, Chairman 

 Board of Trustees 



