Volume 1: Contributors -- Advisory committee members -- Preface to first edition of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology -- Preface to first edition of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology -- History of the manual -- On using the manual -- Bacterial classification -- Bacterial Nomenclature -- Identification of bacteria -- Reference collections of bacteria-the need and requirement for type strains -- List of culture collections -- Higher Taxa, or a place for everything? -- Kingdom Procaryotae -- Division 1: Gracilicutes -- Division 2: Firmicutes -- Division 3: Tenericutes -- Division 4: Mendosicutes -- Section 1: Spirochetes -- Other Organisms -- Section 2: Aerobic/Microaerophilic, Motile, Helica/Vibrioid gram-negative bacteria -- Section 3: Nonmotile (or rarely motile), gram-negative curved bacteria -- Other Genera -- Section 4: Gram-negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci -- Other Genera -- Section 5: Facultatively Anaerobic gram-negative rods -- Other Genera -- Section 6: Anaerobic gram-negative straight, curved and Helical Rods -- Section 7: Dissimilatory Sulfate-or Sulfur-reducing bacteria -- Section 8: Anaerobic gram-negative Cocci -- Section 9: Rickettsias and Chlamydias -- Section 10: Mycoplasmas -- Other Genera -- Section 11: Endosymbionts -- Bibliography -- Index -- Volume 2: -- Bacterial classification -- 1: Classification of Procaryotic organisms: an overview -- 2: Numerical Taxonomy -- 3: Nucleic Acids in Bacterial Classification -- 4: Genetic methods -- 5: Serology and Chemotaxonomy -- Bacterial Nomenclature -- Identification of Bacteria -- Reference collections of bacteria-the need and requirements for type strains -- List of culture collections -- Higher Taxa, or a place for everything? -- Section 12: Gram-positive Cocci -- Section 13: Endospore-forming gram-positive Rods and Cocci -- Section 14: Regular, nonsporing, gram-positive Rods -- Section 15: Irregular, nonsporing, gram-positive Rods -- Section 16: Mycobacteria -- Section 17: Nocardioforms -- Bibliography -- Index -- Volume 3: -- Section 18: Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria -- Section 19: Oxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria -- Section 20: Aerobic Chemolithotrophic Bacteria and associated organisms -- Section 21: Budding and / or appendaged Bacteria -- Section 22: Sheathed Bacteria -- Section 23: Nonphotosynthetic, Nonfruiting Gliding Bacteria -- Section 24: Fruiting Gliding Bacteria: The Myxobacteria -- Section 25: Archaeobacteria -- Bibliography -- Index -- Volume 4: -- Section 26: Nocardiofrom Actinomycetes -- Section 27: Actinomycetes with multilocular Sporangia -- Section 28: Actinoplanetes -- Section 29: Streptomycetes and related Genera -- Section 30: Maduromycetes -- Section 31: Thermomonospora and related Genera -- Sections 32: Thermoactinomycetes -- Section 33: Other Genera -- Addendum -- Bibliography -- Cumulative index (volumes 1-4) of Scientific names of Bacteria.