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very highest magnification, and " cells " under a cover-glass sealed 

 down with cement were observed to suffer no alteration during 

 four months. 



Reference to the extreme claims noted in some of the litera- 

 ture above cited may be fittingly concluded by the following 

 quotation from Lord Kelvin :^^ 



" But let not youthful minds be dazzled by the imaginings of 

 the daily newspapers that because Berthelot and others have . . . 

 made foodstuffs they can make living things, or that there is any 

 prospect of a process being found in any laboratory for making 

 a living thing, whether the minutest germ of bacteriology or any- 

 thing smaller or greater." 



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