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CURRENT LITERATURE: 
BOOK REVIEWS. 
Index to Saccardo’s Sylloge. 
A COMPLETE index to Saccardo’s great work on fungi has been compiled 
by Dr. Sydow.t The first half of the volume was issued in advance, and was 
noticed in this journal for last May. The index is divided into five parts: 
the first part includes species growing on living or dead parts of plants (858 
pages); second those on living or dead parts of animals and man (14 pages); 
third those found on artificial substrata, such as paper, bread, etc. (30 pages); 
fourth those on earth, stones, etc. (137 pages); and fifth those that are fossil 
(13 pages). The bacteria are excluded from the index. The alphabetical 
arrangement is by genera, with species under each genus. The kind of sub- 
Stratum (hosts being mentioned by name), and the geographical distribution 
are also given in the same line. 
The index is almost invaluable to one who uses the work much, and is a 
fitting complement to the eleven volumes of specific descriptions. The typog- 
raphy is admirably suited to ready reference.—J. C. A 
The bacteria.* 
THE author of this valuable addition to bacteriological literature is well 
known to English readers through the translation of his /atroduction to 
Practical Bacteriology, as well as through his original contributions to our 
knowledge of bacterial structure and function. The present work is an 
exceedingly useful and usable compilation. It deals with such questions as 
the relationship of bacteria to other groups of organisms, and the orderly 
‘arrangement possible within the group itself; with the morphology and 
of the cell membrane, the structure, chemistry and reaction to stain 
of the cell contents, the problematic cell nucleus and Centralkorper,; and 
_*Saccarpo, jas hi —Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque ei Vol. XII; 
2 dees. univ ersalis et locupletissimus generum, specierum, subspecierum, varietatum 
spitumque in a opere 8 I-XI) expositorum. Auctore P. Souee Roy. 8vo. 
PP- 1053. Berolini: Fratres Borntraeger. 1897. 
| anise der Bakterien. Handbuch der Morphologie, Ent- 
_ *Micuxa, Dr. : 
a und Systematik der Bakterien. Erster Band. Allgemeiner Teil. 
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