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septic to all micro-organisms other than the remarkable 
one discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Veley. Also the results 
were negative, and hence the question as to whether or not 
the vessels were sterilised cannot affe6l the conclusion. 
Further in the same paragraph another attempt at 
misrepresentation occurs. Here we find a passage 
quoted from our paper, the context being suppressed. 
This suppression was probably due to the context offer- 
ing an explanation ot why micro-organisms are more 
likely to be discovered in faulty rather than sound rum. 
Possibly, however, the introdu6lion of this misrepresenta- 
tion here was merely for the purpose of enabling the 
authors to give us the highly interesting, though somewhat 
irrelevant, personal information, that one of them is " a 
dire6lor and part proprietor of a large and successful 
brewery." 
On page 12 the authors state " he finds its (the 
microbe's) * apparent remains' in the sediment," and then 
informs us that they are not able to "enter into Mr. 
Harrison's frame of mind, when in one passage he defi- 
nitely states (p, 412) that he found the organism described 
by us, while in another (p. 414) he refers to it as the 
' alleged ba6lerium.' " We must here again protest 
against misrepresentations on the part of the authors ; 
we have not stated that we found the apparent remains 
of their organism in any sediment, but " the apparent 
remains of various microscopic organisms ;" we did not 
"definitely state" that we had found the organism in 
any particular sediment, but that in one sample we 
found " among others" an organism apparently simi- 
lar to the one described by Mr, Veley. The expres- 
sion " alleged ba6lerium'' appears in a description of 
an experiment made with the sediment obtained from 
a large quantity of dilute faulty rum in which we could 
not find the organism, but which Mr. and Mrs. Veley's 
theory requires to consist solely of it. We are certain 
that any careful reader, other than Mr, and Mrs. Veley, 
of the paragraph in which it occurs, will not fail to enter 
into our frame of mind when writing it. 
On page 13 the authors state that the milkiness in the 
second portion of a distillate from rum, " probably con- 
