of philosophy were granted their degrees in 

 bacteriology at last commencement, and of this 

 number the theses of the majority were on 

 some phase of general bacteriology, more par- 

 ticularly in their chemical relations. This con- 

 dition marks a type of development in Ameri- 

 can bacteriology that is more or less unique, 

 and so far as I know is peculiar to our univer- 

 sity system. Ten or fifteen years ago students 

 who desired to specialize in bacteriology were 

 obliged to go to European laboratories for 

 their work, but with the great improvement 

 which has taken place in this country in scien- 

 tific work during this period, the American 

 student finds the facilities of a number of 

 American laboratories equal in many lines to 

 anything he can get abroad. 



INFLUENCE OF APPLIED INDUSTRIAL LINES. 



Another factor which has been the means of 

 bringing a number of bacteriological students 

 from other than the usual field has been the 

 demand for trained workers in connection with 

 agricultural and engineering movements. Sci- 

 entific work in agriculture has been greatly fos- 

 tered by the development 'of the agricultural 

 experiment station movement. Although this 

 idea originated in Germany, the development 

 of the system in this country has now far out- 

 stripped that in Europe, particularly in bring- 

 ing the knowledge of scientific advance within 



