A PERSEVERING SCIENTIST.
A Series of Careful and Successful Experiments
Extending Over a Period of Ten Years.
Rev. Dr Dallinger, President of the Royal Micioscopic Society, recently delivered ,an address in which he described a series of experiments which he had conducted patiently and faithfully for nearly 10 years. His project was to place and keep under his lens several varieties of those minute monads which are incessantly multiplying by fissure or division, and which are nearly at the-bot-loin of animated nature.
The generations of these creatures succeed each other about every four minutes ; so that in the course of an hour he can view the p issage of 14 or 15 generations, which would answer to something like 450 years of hurrian histo'-y, while a day of monadic existence would represent more than 10,000 of our years. These monads live in water, and by connecting the drop that serves them for a habitable, and roomy ocean with an ingenious apparatus the temperature of this drop can
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Otago Witness, Issue 1861, 22 July 1887, Page 36
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167A PERSEVERING SCIENTIST. Otago Witness, Issue 1861, 22 July 1887, Page 36
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