as a protege of the science of healing, but that 

 it should stand on its own foundation with 

 other biological sciences. A considerable num- 

 ber of our bacteriologists have come at their 

 life-work from the botanical or general biologi- 

 cal point of view. Others, recognizing the 

 importance of this line of activity in the dairy 

 or in general agriculture, have developed their 

 bacteriology from this special standpoint. 



Several factors have been potent in contrib- 

 uting to this many-sided development of the 

 science in this country. One prominent feature 

 has been in the introduction of the study of 

 bacteriology into the regular science curricula 

 of universities. 



DEVELOPMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY AS A BIOLOGI- 

 CAL SUBJECT. 



In Europe the work is almost universally car- 

 ried on in connection with the faculties of med- 

 icine, but in our own country, in a number of 

 universities, sometimes even those provided 

 with medical colleges, bacteriology is taught 

 in the regular science work as a part of biologi- 

 cal instruction. In such institutions bacteriolo- 

 gists may be trained just as are chemists or 

 botanists. Where work of this scope is given, 

 the bacteria are considered as living organisms 

 and are studied as such. The fact that certain 

 forms are capable of calling forth pathological 

 processes, or are concerned in the production of 



