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water, after the methods that science owes to Berthelot, it 

 follows that, in the case of certain inferior beings, life 

 would be possible even if it should be that the solar light 

 was extinguished. 11 



a See on this subject the verbal observations which we addressed to tie 

 Academy of Sciences at its meetings of April xoth and 24th, 1876. 



