THE BEGINNINGS OF II FE. 



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exposed to 37o°F, and 393° F, and even in others 

 which have been heated to 295°-307°F for four hours. 

 Of these experiments none have, perhaps, yielded more 

 striking results than No. b. Here active Protamoebte 

 and ciliated Monads were taken from an hermetically 

 sealed flask which, eight weeks previously, had been 

 exposed to a temperature of 2 7^-2 75° F- and these 

 very organisms were killed by the same temperature 

 (i40°F) as that which has been found to prove fatal to 



all other Monads and Protamceha. 



It seems scarcely possible to present experimental 

 evidence which could speak more plainly in favour of 

 the occurrence of Archebiosis. 



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