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Colorado, and throw his arm over the apex and down the other 
side until his finger tips would touch the base again. 
If one of the ears of a Harvard student should chance to fall 
under this glass it would appear as high as the old Greylock Moun- 
tain of his own state. These facts may not be purely scientific, 
nevertheless Harvard College must not try to excel us in magnifying 
things. 
BACTERIA vs. FIBRINE. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PAPER. 
BY DR. R. R. GREGG, READ AT THE SEPTEMBER MEETING OF THE 
CLUB. 
Gentlemen of the Buffalo Microscopic Club. 
OUR committee appointed at the September meeting of the club 
to examine into and report upon the claims of Dr. Rollin R. 
Gregg, advanced in a paper entitled “The Bacteria or Germ Theory 
of Disease Overturned,” read before us at the same meeting, has 
examined the same as directed to do and hereby present a report 
accordingly. 
It is unusual for this club to require such duties of its mem- 
bers as those laid upon us. Dr. Gregg is not a member of this 
club; he is engaged in the active practice of a profession, and he is 
a fellow-townsman; he has boldly assailed and controverted the 
position of some of the foremost investigators in the world, con- 
cerning a question of the highest import to all mankind, one con- 
cerning which all should have correct and definite notions; he has 
based his opposition mainly upon his own observations; he states 
his conclusions with a positiveness unusual for an investigator in a 
field surrounded by so many difficulties as all acknowledge pertains 
to the bacteria. In this paper some problems, heretofore considered 
exceedingly crabbed, are settled with such ease that one feels quite 
uncertain of his ground; besides, the paper having been, in part 
printed in the newspapers, has already called out more or less ex- 
tended remarks from various writers. In view of these facts permit 
us to say that we feel how delicate a matter we have in hand, and 
at the same time, how grave a duty. In the discharge of this duty 
we have impartially examined the evidence in the case and have can- 
didly and fairly stated below what we have found and agreed upon. 
