Abstract
RECENTLY there has been an astonishing and sudden revival of interest in the question of the action of bacteria on dead organic matter. Pasteur's experiments on the production of disease by morbific germs were so brilliant that, for long, most workers at the subject kept very much in one groove; still there have always been those who, working very quietly, have been accumulating knowledge concerning the action of bacteria on dead material, and the part these organisms play in the process of disintegration of effete matter.
The Purification of Sewage and Water.
By W. J. Dibdin, &c., late Chemist and Superintending Gas Examiner to the London County Council and the late Metropolitan Board of Works. Pp. xv + 248. Royal 8vo. (London: The Sanitary Publishing Company, Ltd., 1897.)
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W., G. The Purification of Sewage and Water. Nature 57, 601–602 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057601a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057601a0
