350 BOOKS ON BACTERIOLOGY. 
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Recent Booxs on Bacterro.oey. 
most part on previous works, but giving special prominence to, say, 
the kettle—the primitive type of which is undoubtedly the original 
domestic ‘ potato-steamer.”’ Certainly the student of Bacteriology 
. . . . is 
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Woodhead and Hare, at p. 61 of their ‘Pathological Mycology,’ and 
Dr. Crookshank, at p. 79 of his ‘ Practical Bacteriology,’ show him 
with the aid of a diagram how to do this. It is conceivable that 
inventing sterilizing methods and apparatus and staining fluids,— 
all no doubt excellent and necessary things,_but, when made too 
it gave rise in those insects either to Entomophthora, or to Mucor if 
they were on a damp substratum, or if they fell into the water to 
Achlya. From the Mucor again they derived Saccharomyces in & 
sugar solution, &c. 
tions are simply ghastly; and the book is quite equalled in this 
er respect by Roster’s ‘Il Pulviscolo atmosferico.’ A book 
<p vO Serious student of the subject can do without is Hueppe’s 
‘men der Bakterien und ihre Beziehungen zu den Gattungen 
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