Abstract
BY the death of Dr. Andrew Cunningham in Edinburgh on March 4, agricultural bacteriology has lost an outstanding figure. The son of a farmer, Cunnmgham was born near Glenfarg on August 26, 1890. From school at Perth Academy he proceeded in 1908 to the University of Edinburgh, and after graduating in agriculture in 1911 he worked for a year in the chemistry department of the Edinburgh College of Agriculture. Deciding to study bacteriology, he spent the following winter at the Lister Institute and King's College in London, and then proceeded to Leipzig, where he worked for a year under Felix Lohnis. There, his first investigation concerned plate counts of bacteria in soil and milk, and he showed the importance of long incubation at a low temperature if maximum counts are to be obtained. In Leipzig, also, he did some of the pioneer work on the Protozoa of soil and their influence on the soil microflora. Cunningham's future career seems to have been greatly influenced by Lohnis, and it may be more than coincidence that the two men bore a remarkably strong resemblance in temperament and scientific outlook.
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