468 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 
cultivation which had become as hard as a stone was found to be capable 
of germination after the lapse of a year. 
Chromogenous Cladothrix.* * * § — Dr. A. Ruiz Casabo, while examining 
his own sputum, obtained from a puncture culture on alkaline agar a 
brick-red colony which gradually spread along the track to the 
bottom of the tube. Microscopical examination showed a thick, rami- 
fying, red fungus, the branches of which were all of the same diameter. 
On the fifth day the growth broke up into cocci, which, when sown on 
other media, produced in 36 hours the original form. The growth of 
the fungus on glycerin agar, bouillon, milk, and potato was good both 
for luxuriance and colour. On cocoa-nut milk there was no pigment. 
Gelatin was liquefied, and inoculations on guinea-pigs were negative. 
When sown in agar tubes and air excluded by covering the surface, 
germination was observed in 50 hours, and the colony developed along 
the (track as high as 0‘25 cm. from the free surface. There was no 
staining of the medium by transmitted light. 
Bacillus gossypinus.f — Mr. J. M. Stedman attributes the rot- disease 
of the cotton-boll to a previously undescribed microbe to which he gives 
this name. It is an aerobic spore-forming bacillus, straight and truncate, 
with slightly rounded corners, 1*5 fx long and O’ 75 /x in diameter, 
usually solitary, sometimes in pairs, occasionally in chains of three or 
four. It is quite distinct from the fungus which causes anthracnose. 
“Adenite equina.”f — Dr. G. Catterina has investigated the aetiology 
of this disease of horses, the chief indication of which is a running from 
the nose. He finds, both in the discharge and in the blood of the 
infected animals, a Streptococcus which appears to be the cause of the 
malady, and which is well stained by fuchsin. The microbe is patho- 
genous to rabbits, kids, and white mice ; but not to dogs or cats. 
“ Excretion ” of Bacteria in Disease of the Medulla of the 
Kidney.§ — Prof. J. Orth cites many cases in which he observed the 
accumulation of micro-organisms in the canals and tubules of the kidney. 
They lie free in the cell-cavity, forming bacterial cylinders ; they occur 
without there being any abscess or gross change in the cortex. It 
appears therefore that they pass from the blood through the glomeruli 
into the urinary canals. Hence the author calls them Ausscheidungs- 
Tierdchen. A criticism of Herr v. Wunschheim’s opposition to this view 
is given. 
Bacterial Flora of Cheese.|j — Herr H. Henrici gives a historical 
retrospect of our knowledge of the ripening of cheese, and then j)roceeds 
to describe how cultivations should be made and observed. A large 
number of micro-organisms are described, their morphological and 
physiological characteristics being given so that any particular species 
can be recognised. The most important results arrived at by the author 
* Cronica Med.-Quirur. Habana, 1894, No. 13. See Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. u. 
Parasitenk., l te Abt., xvii. (1895) p. 466. 
t Agric. Exp. Stat. Auburn (Alabama), Bull. No. 55, 1894, 12 pp. and 1 pi. 
X Bull. Soc. Veneto-Trentina Sci. Nat., vi. (1895) pp. 1-5. 
§ Nachrichten K. Gegellsch. Wiss. Gottingen, 1895, pp. 19-29. 
|| Arb. a. d. Bact. Inst, de Techn. Hochsch. zu Karlsruhe, i. (1894) p. 3- See 
Hedwigia, xxxiv. (1895), Kep., pp. 4-5. 
