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V. 
ON THE GERMINATION OF SEEDLINGS IN THE ABSENCE 
OF BACTERIA. By H. H. DIXON, B.A. 
(Abstract of a Paper read December 21, 1892, and published in extenso in the ScrENTIFIC 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE Royat Dusuin Soctery, Vol. V., Part 1., p. 1). 
Tus paper contains a description of experiments on the possibility 
of germination in the absence of Bacteria. It was found that 
seeds, the outer coats of which were sterilized, germinated in the 
absence of Bacteria, and being kept absolutely free from Bacteria 
did not, after growth had ceased, suffer the decay of death, but 
remained for more than twenty months apparently unchanged. 
An apparatus for sterilizing the outer coats of the seeds, and 
sowing them without the introduction of Bacteria, is described 
in the paper. ; 
