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BY the death at Leipzig on Dec. 8 of Prof. Felix Lohnis, the science of bacteriology has sustained a serious loss. Lohnis was born in Dresden on Aug. 3, 1874. After he left school and before he finally turned his attention to academic work, he was engaged in practical agriculture for several years. In 1901 he received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig, and in 1905 he became responsible for the instruction and research in agricultural bacteriology in that University. During the period 1905–1914 Löhnis's investigations did much to clarify the position of his subject. The chief contributions of his department were concerned with methods, the seasonal variation in bacterial activities, the decomposition of calcium cyanamide, and nitrogen fixation. This period in Lohnis's career was also notable for the publication of a manual of methods which has been translated into several languages, a text-book which is still the best work of its kind on the subject, and the well-known “Handbuch der landwirtschaftlichen Bak-teriologie”, which is the only comprehensive and critical review of the literature in existence. In 1912 Lohnis had attained a position of such eminence among agricultural bacteriologists that the British Association extended to him an invitation to address Section M (Agriculture) at the Dundee meeting.
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Prof. Felix Löhnis. Nature 127, 99–100 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127099a0
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