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IT is difficult to comprehend exactly what place this work is designed to occupy. The author must have expended an enormous amount of time and labour upon it, but we regret to say we cannot help feeling that much of his work is misapplied. For example, the 200 pages or thereabouts occupied by the tables of bacteria, arranged according to size, can be of little or no value, because the size of bacteria is extremely variable, and because the finer measurements must be very rough. Had this space been devoted to a summary of bacterial characters and reactions, abstracted from original papers, a great deal of scattered material would have been gathered together, and the result would have been most valuable. The bibliography in the earlier parts should be useful, but the summary of characters contained in the later ones is too brief and scrappy to be of much value.
The Scientific Roll and Magazine of Systematised Notes.
Conducted by Alexander Ramsay. Bacteria. Vol. i. Pp. 528. (Acton, London, W.: R. T. Sharland.) Price 16s.
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The Scientific Roll and Magazine of Systematised Notes . Nature 74, 174 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074174b0
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