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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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300 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL schools which have no facilities for keeping bacterial cultures in condition throughout the year. Even more important however are the facilities which the Museum collec- tion offers to the investigator. Syste- matic bacteriology a decade ago was in a pre-Linnpean stage; but it has developed rapidly in the United States during re- and with so little red tape to be unwound before they can be secured"'; Professor Ravenel, of the University of Wisconsin, "The starting of this department is a great help, not only to us, but, I am sure, to all other teachers in the United States"; Professor Lipman, of the New Jersey Agricultural College, "Such a station will meet a long-felt want"; Professor Lyons, of Har- vard, "Permit me to say that I think your selection of fourteen organisms for teaching purposes is most happy and that they have proved invaluable in our classes"; Professor Rettger, of Yale, "It is a perfect godsend to have an institution like yours furnish one with cultures of all kinds"; Doctor Hill, of the Minnesota State Board of Health, " I think this is a fine thing and should have been done long ago"; Professor Church- man, of Johns Hopkins, "Such a bacteriological station as yours will tremendously ease the burden of research work; it will make certain studies possible wliich would otherwise be out of the question and it will make it possible for bacteriologists to work with standard cultures and so to obtain more accurate results. I think that all those familiar with the facts hail the establishment of your department as an advance of great importance"; Professor Sedgwick, of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, "I feel sure that you will be glad to know how highly we biologists with bacteriological leanings value and appreciate this generous scientific service on your part." cent years; and scarcely a paper upon bacterial classification can be found in which the types sent out from the American Museum do not play a pri- mary part. The museum of living bacteria does not however, exist solely for the purpose of aiding other investigators. The cura- tor of the department of public health of the American Museum is chairman of the committee on classification of the Society of American Bacteriologists, and in this connection Dr. Kligler and the other assistants have been steadily at work on the systematic relationships of various groups of bacteria (at present, the group to which the typhoid germ belongs). We expect to make a report on a revision of bacterial genera at the New Haven meeting of the Society next fall. It is hoped that by attacking group after group the whole family of the bacteria, which has presented so difficult a problem in the past, may be mapped out and brought together in a work which shall be as fundamental as the contributions of the American Mu- seum to systematic biology in other fields.
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