336 REMARKS ON PHOSPHORESCENT BACTERIA FROM SEA-WATER. 



namely, that besides an aerobic form at the mucous surface of 

 luminous lobster-flesh, they found inside this mucus an anaerobic 

 one of extremely small dimensions, a micro-organism which, they 

 say, produces carburetted and phosphoretted hydrogen, by the 

 combustion of which phosphorescence is produced. Then Lassar (1) 

 suggested the idea that perhaps the phosphorescence of some of the 

 numerous phosphorescent marine animals might be brought about 

 by parasitic micro-organisms. It is after all not impossible that 

 anaeorbic forms may be found to be the cause of the luminosity of a 

 number of luminous marine animals, which would then contribute 

 only mediately to the phosphorescence of sea-water. 



(1) Quoted from Fischer, I.e., p. 92. 



