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CfJXTENTS. 



Pago. I 



General Considerations — Continned. 



Microscopes 129 



Photography and Photomicrography 130 



Some Milestones in the Progress of Bacteri- 

 ology 151 



Nomenclature and Classifications 154 



Migula's Classification 159 



Value of Morphological Characters 176 



Value of Cultural Characters 178 



Undergraduate Work 181 



A Final Caution 184 



Formula; 187 



Stains ; 



General and Miscellaneous 187 



Cleaning Cover-glasses i8g 



Flagella-staining 189 



Capsule-stains 194 



Spore-stains 194 



Non-synthetic Culture-media 195 



Synthetic Culture-media 197 



Miscellaneous 200 



Fixing Fluids 202 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, GENERAL LITERATURE. 



L Journals 203 



IL Transactions, Beitrage, Jahresberich- 



ten, Festschriften, etc 204 



IIL Manuals 204 



IV. Physical, Chemical, Zoological, and 

 Botanical Works of special use to 



the Plant Pathologist 206 



V. Books and Papers of more or less 



general interest 210 



VL Important Books and Papers on 



special human and animal diseases. 212 

 VII. Predisposition, Conditions Favoring 



Infection or Immunity 214 



VIII. Symljiosis, Antagonism 214 



IX. Carriers of Infection 215 



X. General Morpholog_\- of the Bacteria. 215 



XI. Spores 218 



XII. Flagella 219 



XIII. Capsules 220 



XIV. Stains and Staining Methods 221 



XV. Morphological and Physiological 



Changes due to Changed Environ- 

 ment 222 



XVI. Culture-media 223 



XVII. Methods of Work, Apparatus, etc.. . 226 

 XVIII. Special means ot Differentiating 



Bacteria 229 



XIX. Aerobism, Anaerobism 230 



XX. Fermentations, Gas-formation, En- 

 zymes, etc 2,^2 



XXI. Ptomaines, Toxins, Antitoxins, Se- 

 rums, Phagocytosis, etc 235 



XXII. Attenuation, Virulence 236 



XXIII. Pigments, Green Bacteria 236 



XXIV. Reduction and Oxidation 239 



XXV. Nitrifying and Denitrifying Organ- 

 isms, Use of Free Nitrogen 



XXVI. Use of Free Carbon Dioxide 



XXVII. Luminous Bacteria 



XXVIII. Hydrogen vSulpliidc and otherwise 



unclassified By-products 242 



2,TO 

 241 



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XXIX. Action of Light on Bacteria 243 



XXX. Effect of Electricity 244 



XXXI. Action on Bacteria of Roentgen 



Rays, Radium Rays, etc 245 



XXXII. Effect of High Pressure on Bacteria,. . 245 



XXXIII. i\ction of Heat and Cold on Bacteria. 246 



XXXIV. Thermophilic Bacteria 247 



XXXV. Resistance to Dry Air 248 



XXXVI. Action of Acids and Alkalies 249 



XXXVII. Agglutination and Precipitation 249 



XXXVIII. Antiseptics and Germicides 250 



XXXIX. Chemotropism, Thermotropism, Geo- 



tropism, Contact-Irritation, etc 253 



XL. Osmotic Pressures 254 



XLI. Chemical Analysis of Bacteria 254 



XLII. Distribution of Bacteria — Geograph- 

 ical and Altitudinal 254 



XLIII. Soil-Organisms; Putrefactive Or- 

 ganisms 256 



XLIV. Vinegar-bacteria 256 



XLV. Silage-bacteria, Fermentation of To- 

 bacco, of Indigo, Retting of Flax, 

 of Sisal Hemp, etc.. Softening of 



Pickles, Sauerkraut, etc 230 



XLVI. Bacteria in Water and Ice; Dung- 

 bacteria 258 



XLVII. Mdk-bactcria; Cheese-bacteria; But- 

 ter-bacteria; Meat-bacteria 259 



XLVIII. Bacteria in Bread 260 



XLIX. Iron-bacteria 201 



Iv. Sulphur-bacteria 261 



LI. Bacteria in Prehistoric Times 262 



LII. Preparation of Slides, Cultures, etc . 



for Museums, etc 2(12 



LIII. Stock-cultures, how best kept; Vital- 

 ity on Media 2U;-, 



Ll\^ Color-charts; Nomenclature of Col- 

 ors 203 



LV. Photograpliy and Photomicrography. . 2bi, 



LVl Methods and S\'Stems of Classification 2114 



LVIl. Useful Catalogues 205 



