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SO far from being a text-book on general microbiology, as the title seems to imply, more than half this book is devoted to the medical aspects of the subject, little space being assigned to fermentation, soil microbiology and nitrification, micro-organisms in industry, and the like.
A Textbook of Microbiology
By Prof. Kenneth L. Burdon. Second edition of “A Textbook of Bacteriology”. Pp. xv + 638. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939.) 14s. net.
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HEWLETT, R. A Textbook of Microbiology. Nature 146, 149 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146149a0
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