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Chemiluminescence in Solution 452 



Inorganic Compounds 452 



Organic Compounds 453 



Part III. Luminescence of Living Organisms. Biolumines- 



CENCE 457 



General Statement 459 



Chapter XIV. Shining Fish, Flesh, and Wood . . . .461 



Introduction 461 



Francis Bacon and Shining Wood 461 



The Luminous Mutton of Montpellier 462 



Pierre Borel 463 



Thomas Bartholin 463 



Daniel Puerarius 465 



Luminous Fish and Invertebrates 469 



Robert Boyle 470 



John Beal 474 



Luminous Eggs and Other Unusual Things .... 476 



Eighteenth-Century Views 479 



J. J. Dortous de Mairan 479 



Henry Baker 479 



Anton Martin 480 



John Canton 481 



Johann Sebastian Albrecht 482 



Baron von Meidinger 483 



Luminous Mushrooms and Rhizomorphs .... 484 



Luminous Potatoes, Roots, Leaves, Fruit, and Cheese . 485 



Effect of Gases on Shining Wood and Flesh .... 487 



Frederic Achard 487 



Spallanzani and Carradori 488 



Nicholai Tychsen 489 



Von Humboldt, Gaertner, and Boeckmann . . 490 



Nathaniel Hulme 491 



Early Nineteenth-Century Views 493 



Fermentation and Putrefaction by Microorganisms . 498 



The Light of Wood a Fungus Growth 499 



Shining Flesh and Animalcules 501 



Johann Florian Heller and Luminous Bacteria . . . 503 



From Heller to Pfliiger 504 



