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REVIEW. 
The Cultivation of the Fungi. 
“ Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie, von 
Oscar Brefeld. Band XIV, Die Kultur der Pilze, pp. VIII. -f 256. 
Munster i. W., 1908.” Preis 16 Mk. 
I N the present volume Professor Brefeld has collected together 
the chief results of his practical experiences in the various 
methods of tracing the life-history of the Fungi, a work which 
extends over a period of more than forty years. We must remember 
that it is to Professor Brefeld that we owe the invention of the 
method, which dates from 1868, of starting fungus-cultures from a 
single spore, and until this method met with universal adoption, 
most of the accounts dealing with the life-histories of the various 
Fungi were unreliable. The magnificent results achieved by Brefeld 
himself through consistently following his method of pure culture 
are contained in the first thirteen volumes of this work, which have 
appeared from time to time starting with 1872. 
