CHAPTER IX 



THE RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENTS NOW RECORDED 



MUST BE CONSIDERED TO PROVE THE DE NOYO 



ORIGIN OF LIVING MATTER 



As stated in Chapters III. and IV., in the experi- 

 ments initiated in 1909 living organisms were taken 

 from fifty-two tubes that had been previously 

 heated to temperatures of 125 and 130 C. for 

 ten minutes, and from eight tubes that had been 

 heated to 135 C. for five minutes. 



In the first series of this year the results were 

 as follows: Living organisms were taken from 

 thirty-three out of thirty-six tubes that had been 

 heated to 130 C. for from five to ten minutes; 

 from all of seven tubes heated to 135 C.; all of 

 five heated to 141 C.; and all of another five that 

 had been heated to 145 C. (293 F.) for five 

 minutes; the three failures in the case of the tubes 

 that had been heated to 130 C. only being due to 

 the partial decomposition by heat of the particular 



yellow solutions employed in these experiments. 



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