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THIS publication, which has now reached its third edition, is an extension and elaboration of the admirable and painstaking work of the Committee on Characterisation and Classification of the Society of American Bacteriologists (1917, 1920). When one considers the labour involved in a compilation of this nature, it would be agreeable if one could be persuaded that the value of the results obtained is commensurate with the effort expended. But even the most cursory examination of the pages of this manual suggest that too much is taken for granted in the published descriptions of various micro-organisms.
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology: a Key for the Identification of Organisms of the Class Schizomycetes.
By David H. Bergey, assisted by a Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists, Francis C. Harrison, Robert S. Breed, Bernard W. Hammer, Frank M. Huntoon, with an Index by Robert S. Breed. Third edition. Pp. xviii + 589. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1930.) 27s. net.
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J.-B., R. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology: a Key for the Identification of Organisms of the Class Schizomycetes . Nature 128, 6 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128006a0
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