Abstract
DR. GARDNER has added another good biological book to this excellent series. He does not attempt to deal with the whole of microbiology but, after a rather scrappy chapter on the structure and functions of bacteria, he gives good and stimulating accounts of bacterial variation, the ultramicro-scopic viruses and the bacteriophage, as up to date as any version of these moving topics can be and adapted for the general biologist as well as the technical specialist. There are a few mistakes; for example, distemper vaccine is not made in guinea-pigs (p. 65). Mr. de Beer adds an appendix pointing out the analogy between genes and viruses.
Microbes and Ultramicrobes: an Account of Bacteria, Viruses and the Bacteriophage.
A. D.
Gardner
By; with an Appendix by G. R. de Beer. (Methuen's Monographs on Biological Subjects.) Pp. viii + 120.(London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1931.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Microbes and Ultramicrobes: an Account of Bacteria, Viruses and the Bacteriophage . Nature 130, 648 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130648c0
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