LATENT LIFE.
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. ("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Service*.) LONDON, July 6. Professor Becquerel, of tlio Paris University, placed seeds in a vacuum at tho temperature of liquid air. Subsequently hu planted the tseeds, and they sprouted vigorously after two years. Professor Bocquerol concludes from this that latent life, which will remain in the earth when tho euu is exhausted, will be capable of bursting into activity again under proper conditions.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15014, 8 July 1914, Page 9
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