SCIENCE 



FRroAT, January 16, 1914 



CONTENTS 

 The Characterization and Classification of 

 Bacterial Types: Peofessoe C.-E. A. Wins- 

 uoir 77 



Academic Student Elections: Peofessoe W. 

 Lb Conte Stevens 91 



Scientific Notes and News 94 



University and Educational News 98 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



On the Identity of Verruga and Carrion's 

 Fever: De. Chaeles H. T. Townsend 99 



Sdentifie Books: — ■ 



',' Scott's Last Expedition: Geneeal A. W. 



r Geeely. von Fiirth's Proileme der physio- 

 logischen und pathologischen Chemie: Peo- 

 PESSOB Lafayette B. Mendel. Jackson on 

 Alternating Currents: Peofessoe Feedeeick 

 Bedell. Weinschenk 's Fetrographisches 

 Vademekum : Peofessoe Edwaed H. Kbads. 100 



Special Articles:- — 



The Cultivation of Tissues from the Frog : 

 Peofessoe S. J. Holmes. Note on the Ab- 

 sorption of Calcium during the Molting of 

 the Blue Crab: Selig Hecht 107 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Botanical Society of Washington : P. L. 

 BicKEE. The Association of Teachers of 

 Mathematics in the Middle States and Mary- 

 land: H. F. Haet. The Philosophical So- 

 ciety of the University of Virginia: L. G. 

 HOXTON 109 



MSS. Intended for publication and books, etc.. intended for 

 reriew should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson. N. Y. 



THE CHASACTEBIZATION AND CLASSIFI- 

 CATION OF BACTERIAL TYPES^ 



The vast majority of students of micro- 

 bial life are preoccupied with Immediately 

 practical problems, and most of them have 

 been trained for their work from the stand- 

 point of some practical art, medicine, vet- 

 erinary science, sanitary engineering or 

 agriculture, rather than from the more 

 general and fundamental standpoint of the 

 biologist. The Society of American Bacte- 

 riologists was founded as a protest against 

 such necessary but dangerous specializa- 

 tion, to bring together workers in all fields 

 for a consideration of their problems in the 

 light of the underlying, unifying principles 

 of bacteriology as a member of the group 

 of the biologic sciences. It is this ideal 

 which distinguishes our society from any 

 other organization in America which deals 

 with microbic life and its effects. 



It is of course fruitless to attempt to 

 draw any sharp distinction between pure 

 and applied science, and it would be a 

 great pity if, as we gather year by year, 

 we should fail to discuss together many of 

 the more special problems of technique 

 with which we are concerned. In particu- 

 lar it is well that we should exercise the 

 widest hospitality toward those branch^ 

 of our science, such as dairy bacteriology 

 and soil bacteriology which have no techni- 

 cal societies at their disposal, such as are 

 available for the specialists in medical and 

 sanitary lines. We should be untrue to our 

 highest mission, however, if we failed at 

 ttie same time to emphasize those phases of 

 our work in which this society of all others 



1 Presidential address, Society of American Bac- 

 teriologists, Montreal, Canada, January 1, 1914. 



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