An account of the recent researches into the history of the Bacteria : made by, and under the direction of, Prof. Cohn / by F. Jeffrey Bell.

  • Bell, F. J. (Francis Jeffrey), 1855-1924.
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[1876]
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Credit: An account of the recent researches into the history of the Bacteria : made by, and under the direction of, Prof. Cohn / by F. Jeffrey Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An Account of the Recent Researches into the History of the Bacteria, made by, and under the direction of, Prof. Cohn.1 By F. Jeffrey Bell, Exhibitioner of Magdalen College, Oxford. (With Plate XX.) In the April number of the 13th volume of this Journal (1873), an account was given of the first series of observa- tions on Bacteria which Professor Cohn had published in his valuable ‘ Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzem’ (lleft 2) ; in the 3rd Heft, published last year, the subject is continued by Cohn, in addition to whom Eidam, working in his laboratory, gives an account of certain experiments made on these interesting organisms. Since the publication of the previous paper the discussion concerning spontaneous gene- ration has changed in aspect; Dr. Burdon Sanderson has given an account of several Bacterioid forms, in his Reports to the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, and Professor Ray Lankester has called the attention of readers of this Journal to the subject by his very interesting account of “ a peach- coloured Bacterium.” To the wide interest exhibited in these forms Cohn briefly refers, but mentions at greater length the work of Billroth, published by George Reimer, of Berlin, in 1874.2 I shall try to give in the following pages an account of these two new papers, but must refer all who are really interested in the matter from whatever point of view, philosophical,botanical, or pathological, to the originals them- 1 * Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen,’ 3es Heft, 1875. 3 ‘ Untersuchungen iiber die Vegetationsform von Coccobacteria sep- tica,’ &c.