CHEMICAL SECRET OF LIFE.
CATERPILLARS SAID TO HAVE BEEN EVOLVED BY SULPHURIC ACID.
Biologists have an astonishing piece of news in the assertion, cabled from New York, that a way has been found to produce living organisms by chemical agency. A student at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, is said to have stumbled upon a treatment, in which sulphuric acid plays a part, for evolving live caterpillars from unfertilised moth- eggs. He is said t-o have so produced several caterpillars, and universities in Europe are to be officially notified of the discovery. The Student is one Bradford Ripley, a freshman not. yet eighteen years of age.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3562, 29 June 1912, Page 4
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105CHEMICAL SECRET OF LIFE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3562, 29 June 1912, Page 4
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