236 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
deductions which we draw from these simple “experiments may be 
summed up as follows :— 
1.) Light is inimical to the development of Bacteria and the 
microscopic fungi associated with putrefaction and decay, its action 
- the latter organisms being apparently less rapid than upon the 
ormer. 
(2.) Under favorable conditions it wholly prevents that develop- 
under less favorable it may only retard 
rays of the spectru ; 
5. e fitness of a cultivation-liquid to act as a nidus is not 
impaired by insolation. 
6.) The germs originally present in such a liquid may be wholly 
destroyed <i : ondenigar: fluid perfectly preserved by the un- 
gat, 
though there are many vital phenomena, both of plant-life 
confine ourselves to the plain facts of our observations, 
and have studiously avoided speculation and theory. We cannot, 
however, refra rom offering one comment on the striking 
to special circumstances, and differing essentially in its vital phe- 
nomena from the true cellular tissue of the plant and its proto- 
It appears to us that the organisms which have been the subject 
of our research may be regarded simply as individual “ cells 7 oF 
ae 
themselves may be in operation throughout the vegetable and 
perhaps also the animal, kingdom wherever light has direct access 
