IT is only comparatively recently that precise knowledge has been obtained in regard to the important problem of polysaccharide synthesis by bacteria. This advance has been due to the work of Hibbert and co-workers , who succeeded in isolating in the pure state and also on a large scale the poly- saccharides formed by the activity of the micro-organisms B. mesentericUs, B. subtilis, and Acetobacter xylinum, and ascertaining their chemical structure.
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