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NOTES AND LITERATURE 



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"The Micrococcus pellitcidus, although pubUshed quite recently 

 and in the Comptes Rendus of the French Academy, is not described 

 any better." "I find it quite impossible," says Mr. Stoddert, "to 

 identify many species from published descriptions." Numerous 

 complaints of this sort, made in recent years by well trained and com- 

 petent men, sufficiently indicate the necessity of a thoroughgoing 

 reform. He makes a plea for better and more careful descriptions, 

 and concerning the use of the uncertain old names says: "And 

 here I wish to register a protest against anything of this nature ever 

 being done. If, in his own generation, a name cannot be associated 

 beyond doubt with a particular organism by means of an author's 

 description or figures or collected specimens, then this name should 

 disappear, never to be revived. Societies of bacteriologists should 

 unite in the near future on some authoritative date for the beginning 

 of species priority, so that some sort of stability may be guaranteed 

 to the nomenclature of the future." 



In this part of the work there is a good discussion of the more 

 modern systems of classification, that of Dr. Alfred Fischer, 1895, 

 and the Migula classification, the latter of which is largely followed 

 in this country. He then gives descriptions of the following orders 

 and families: order Eubacteria, family Coccaceje (Zopf emend.), 

 Mig., family Bacteriacere, family Chlamydobacteriacese ; order Thio- 

 bacteria, family Beggiatoacea, family Rhodobacteriaceffi, subfamily 

 Thiocapsacea?, subfamily Lamprocystacese, subfamily Thiopediaceffi, 

 subfamily Amoebobacteriaccic, subfamily (^hromatiacea?, to which 



Bacterium (Cohn) takes tlu- phuo of Psou.lonu.na> of Migula. The 

 Pseudomonas campestris becomes Bacicrhiin cam prsfns. 1 he Bacillus 

 anthracis of Cohn is the type of a new genus. Ai>lilaii.)l)acier. The 

 organism then should be called AphlauobacUr aiiflnru'is (Colin) K. I. 

 Smith. The genus Vibrio (]\Iuller, Cohn) includes the Spirillum 

 cholera-asiaticoB. Otherwise he follows the classification of Migula. 

 There are good grounds for the changes here proposed. 



The author has brotight together fomnilfe for stains, synthetic 



Sb!l^Mi!^^',^al!' 'llrivllielr totihlioiii-ai'.llv! ' wl'll arnl!!ge.l 'and 

 frequ..nlly proCnled with abstracts uf the papers. Many exeellent 

 plates aceouipanv tlie paper. The f ronlispiecc^ contains haU'tones 

 of five eminent" bacteriologists: Ferdinand Cohn, Robert Koch, 

 Louis Pasteur, Emile Roux, and Emile Duclaux. 



Some changes 



