Excerpt from The Bacteria
Having found the admirable resume of our knowledge of the bacteria, by Dr. Magnin, of great assistance to me, in pursuing the investigations in which I have been engaged during the past year under the auspices of the National Board of Health, it has seemed to me that a translation of the work into English and its publication in this country would be productive of good in more ways than one, and of the advancement of science. To the naturalist, it cannot fail to be of value, as the most approved classification, that of Cohn, is given, with a full description of species. To give additional value to this portion of the work, figures of many of the best-known forms, drawn from various foreign sources, and reproductions of some of my own photo-micographs (by permission of the National Board of Health), have been introduced.
If we are to judge from the scanty literature of the subject in this country, the amount of interest which has been aroused by the revelation of a new world of micro-organisms, and by the momentous questions which have been raised in connection with them, is far below that awakened in Germany, France, and England.
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