Abstract:Bibliography 199 General Index 223 Index of Organisms 227 Bacteria belong to the most widespread of organisms; we may say they are omnipresent; they never fail either in air or water; they attach themselves to the surface of all firm bodies, but develop in masses only where decomposition, corruption, fermentation or putrefaction are present.
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