System der Bakterien

Abstract

THIS volume is the second part of a work, of which the first part was reviewed in this journal in June 1898. It was then pointed out how meritorious was this undertaking of Prof. Migula, well known by his researches into the morphology of bacteria and allied organisms, in attempting to scientifically group the enormous number of forms of bacteria that had been discovered and described. No better index for the great difficulties of classifying bacteria in a scientific manner need be adduced than the fact that bacteriology within the last fifteen or twenty years has advanced by leaps and bounds, and that a host of workers—botanists, chemists, and last, but not least, pathologists—have been busy in discovering new forms, and describing and classifying them in any but a scientific manner, and on principles widely differing according to the actual point of view of the individual observers.

System der Bakterien.

Von Dr. W. Migula. Zweiter Band, Specielle Systematik der Bakterien. Pp. x + 1068 + xviii Plates. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1900.)