Martinum Willem Beijerinck. His life and his work. 1940. 11 plates. IV,181 p. Reprint 1983, with a foreword by C.B. van Niel and a preface by Thomas D.Brock. XXI p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Contents (partly): Part 1: Beijerinck, The Man (Descent, Childhood,Adolescence, The secondary school teacher, The industrial microbiologist, The academic teacher, Beijerinck at work, The retiredscholar)/ Part 2: Beijerinck, The Botanist (Studies on galls, Morphological investigations on adventitious formations and regenerationphenomena, Studies on phyllotaxis, Minor morphological researches,Cross-breeding experiments, Investigations on gummosis, Studies onstarch, and problems of colloid chemistry, Pure cultures of algae,Considerations on heredity, Bacterial root nodules)/ Part 3: Beijerinck,The Microbiologist (Introduction, The birth of the microbiologist, Growth and maturation of the microbiologist, A more detailed appreciation of Beijerinck's main contributions to microbiology, Theenvoy)/ Appendices (The "Stellingen" accompanying Beijerinck's doctoratethesis/ List of Beijerinck's assistants in his academic period/ List ofcommunications from the Laboratory for Microbiology at Delft, publishedby Beijerinck's collaborators in the years 1895-1921/ List of Doctor'sTheses, wholly or largely prepared under Beijerinck's direction/ List ofobituary articles/ Bibliography of Beijerinck.