CONTENTS. 



PARTIAL LIST OF TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS. APPA- 

 RATUS AND MATERIAL. LABORATORY MAXIMS. 



EXERCISBS. PAGE. 



I. Cleaning glassware n 



II. Plugging test tubes and flasks and sterilizing the 



glassware 13 



III. The preparation -of bouillon 14 



IV. The preparation of agar and gelatin 17 



V. Inoculating tubes of bouillon, agar and gelatin 20 



VI. The examination of cultures 22 



VII. Making and staining cover-glass preparations and 



formulae for staining solutions 25 



VIII. Making plate and Esmarch roll cultures 29 



IX. The examination of plate cultures and making sub- 

 cultures from colonies 32 



X. The preparation of certain special media 34 



XI. Inoculating special media and examining cultures. _ 37 



XII. The examination of cultures on special media 38 



XIII. The examination of cultures continued 40 



XIV. The classification of bacteria 41 



XV. Identifying genera among bacteria 43 



XVI. Studying the morphology of bacteria 44 



XVII. Studying and staining spores 45 



XVIII. Staining the flagella on motile bacteria 46 



XIX. Staining tubercle bacteria (bacilli) 49 



XX. Making cultures of anaerobic bacteria 51 



XXI. Examination of anaerobic bacteria 52 



XXII. Study of the gas production by bacteria _ 53 



XXIII. Identifying genera of bacteria and obtaining pure 



cultures from colonies 55 



XXIV. Cleaning used culture tubes, flasks, and Petri dishes, 56 

 XXV. Preparation of glassware for culture media 56 



XXVI. Preparation of culture media 57 



XXVII. A study of certain pyogenic bacteria 58 



XXVIII. Pyogenic bacteria (continued) 58 



