
INDEX 
ABIOGENESIS, I 
Acid urine, barren after boiling, 131- 
* 133 . 
Acids, retard fermentation, 116-118 
Actinium, 16, 17 
Actinomyces, 255, 256 
Adami, Prof., 306 
Air of flasks replaced by other gases, 89 
Airless flasks, 90-92, 137-145, 257 
Alpha rays, 16 
Ammonium tartrate solution, 57; 
growth of organisms in, 235, 312 
Andrewes, Dr, 307 
Aristotle, 4, 29 
Atomic Theory, 14 
Atoms, 4; complexity of, 8 ; constitu- 
tion of, 7; disintegration of, 10, 15 ; 
genesis of, 17 
Atoms of hydrogen, 6; of mercury, 6 
BACILLI in superheated infusions, 196 
Bacilli, spores of, 70 ; death-point of, 
71-74; after desiccation, 75-86 
Bacillus of Tubercle, 306, 308; of 
Typhoid, 301 
Bacteria, as things of yesterday, 308 ; 
forms of, dependent on molecular 
composition, 308; growth of, in 
saline solutions, 230-282, 235, 312; 
in air, 39-41 ; paucity of, 272 
Bacteria, heterogenetic origin of, 285- 
288 ; in cells of potato, 285-287 ; in 
cells of turnip, 286; in spines of 
Cyclops, 287 
Bacteria, thermal death-point of, 56- 
66 ; evidence of life of, 97 
Bacteriological science, 296 
Bacteriologists and their work, 312-314 
Barry, De, 73 
Bath of calcium chloride, 234; of 
colza oil, 234 
Beer-wort, experiments with, 194 
Behring, Prof., 310 
Bennett, Prof. Hughes, 120 
Bickerton, Prof., 3 
Blaxall, Dr, 67 

Boiling water and living matter, 45- 
52; potency of, 259 
Boussingault, M., 158 
Breeding true, 291, 298 
Brownian movements, 96 
Buffon, xv, 87 
Bulliard, 74 
Burdach, xiv, 51 
CALCINED air, 88 
Calcium chloride bath, 234 
Cathode rays, 5 
Chamberland, Ch., 175, 
208, 232 
Chemical elements in stars, 12, 14 
Child, Dr, 90 
Classification of stars, 14 
Cohn, Ferdinand, 54, 62, 70, 129, 
214, 227, 228 
Colza oil bath, 234 
Commission of Academy of Sciences, 
158; abortive ending of, 166; its 
constitution not approved, 161; 
meeting of, 163-166 ; objections of 
M. Milne Edwards at, 163, 166; 
stipulations concerning proceedings 
of, 160 
Complexity of atoms, 8; of matter, 
8 
179, 181, 
Conferve of hot springs, 53 
Contagion of specific diseases, 298 
Contagious diseases, their conditions 
of origin, 314 
Convertibility of microbes, 300 
Cooling, effects of different rates of, 
276 
Corpuscles, 6, 18 
Cotton wool, as plug for flasks, 89 ; 
flasks plugged with, 145 
Creative hypothesis, 26 
Crookes, Sir Wm., 5 
Crystalline form, constancy of, 290 
Crystals and lowest organisms, 289 ; 
their forms independent of heredity, 
290 
Cucumber infusion, 194 
315 
