Spontaneous Life.
(To the Editor, Observer.), Sib, — A long letter appeared in your Observes 20th June, signed by Richard Marsh. It is rather the custom of men of science to remain silent when anything of the above nature is mentioned, espeoially when the writer considers himself philosophical. Ido not profess to open what he might choose to call a debate, but I merely tell him of an experience of which I was an eye-witness. Ordinary atmospheric air was drawn into a terrooeleon vacuum, through caustic lime; to retain the moisture, and then through sulphuric aoid to kill all germs of animal and vegetable life ; it was then allowed to remain for some months, and was then examined, and I need hardly say, as the result^ that when it was examined microscopically, no germs of life could be found in it. — I am, etc., -t I>R Broome. Huntley, June 26, 1891.
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Observer, Volume XI, Issue 653, 4 July 1891, Page 10
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