CONTENTS 



LIST OF TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS 

 APPARATUS AND MATERIAL 

 LABORATORY MAXIMS .... 

 INTRODUCTION 



EXERCISES 



I. Cleaning glassware ....... 



II. Plugging tubes and flasks and sterilizing the glassware . 



III. The preparation of bouillon ...... 



IV. The preparation of gelatin and agar .... 

 V. Inoculating tubes of bouillon, agar, and gelatin 



VI. The examination of cultures ...... 



VII. Making and staining cover-glass preparations, and for- 

 mulas for staining solutions 



VIII. Making plate and Esmarch roll cultures 

 IX. The examination of plate cultures and the making of 

 subcultures from colonies ...... 



X. The preparation of certain differential and special media 

 XI. Inoculating special media and examining cultures . 

 XII. The examination of cultures on special media 



XIII. The examination of cultures (continued) 



XIV. The classification of bacteria ...... 



XV. The morphology of streptococcus, micrococcus, and 



sarcina ......... 



XVI. The morphology of bacillus 



XVII. The morphology of bacterium and spirillum . 

 XVIII. Staining spores . . . . . . . 



XIX. Staining the flagella on motile bacteria .... 



XX. Staining tubercle bacteria (bacilli) 



XXI. A study of certain saprophytic bacteria .... 



XXII. A study of bacteria in milk 



XXIII. A study of bacteria in water ...... 



XXIV. A study of certain pyogenic bacteria .... 



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