THE STRUCTURE OF BACTERIA. 



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es fermentation occurring 

 in the manufacture of ar- 

 rack in Batavia (after Vor- 

 dermann and Eijkman). 



rous bacteria, or is like the true branching 

 of moulds. Schottelius x observed on certain 

 occasions a cell division 

 so irregular in character 

 in the " miracle bac- 

 teria" as at once to 

 suggest budding of a 

 torula or saccharomyces 



nature, and Wood found Fig 22 J^ aci n U3 fr0 m moiass- 

 a torula-form among 

 anthrax bacilli that were 

 shut out from free access 

 of air, without however being able to initiate de- 

 velopment with it. Finally Koch and Hosaeus 2 

 have discovered a kind of bacterium with a 

 gelatinous stalk which reminds one of a diatom 

 (Fig. 23). The fore- 

 going facts clearly dem- 

 onstrate that the usual 

 designations " bacteria" 

 and " bacteriology " are 

 not adequate to repre- 

 sent correctly and scien- 

 tifically the actual sitU- Fig. 23. B. pediculatum from 



" frog-spawn" of sugar man- 



atlOIl. ufactories (after A. Koch and 



f-^^ 1 . j H. Hosaeus). 



The complicated 

 structure which Ehrenberg claimed was to 



1 Festschr. f. A.v. Kolliker, Leipzig, 1887. 



2 Centralbl. f. Bakt. XVI., 1897, p. 225. 



