THE DURATION OF LIFE 



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the slant food and absorbing paper. Small drops still 

 cling in some cases to the agar, and a fly might drown 

 in such a drop just as well as in a similar drop on a 

 horizontal surface. The important point is that this ex- 

 periment confirms our general experience in this work, 

 namely, that accidental deaths occur so extremely rarely 

 under our conditions that they do not appreciably affect 

 the results. 



