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Profs. Percy Frankland and Marshall Ward. 



Kept in incubator at 20° G. for two months, then (same place) at 

 ordinary temperature for five months more. 



Plates gave no anthrax, either raw or after the water was at 56° C. 

 for twenty-four hours, yet other organisms were found. 



A guinea pig inoculated with 2 c.c. of the water lived. 



The experiment suggests that there was no anthrax in the original 

 Thames water, or it would have made itself evident during the 

 sojourn in the incubator. 



These results are summarised in the following table : — 



