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100,000 YEARS OLD
AGED MICROBES. FRENCHMAN’S DISCOVERY. LONDON, Oct. 25. A message from Paris says that microbes 100,000 years old, yet still living and active organisms, have been discovered by Dr Gallipe, a French savant, in the fossils of prehistoric animals, according to a statement made by him at the French Academy of Science. Dr Gallipe declared also that not only limestone, but even quartz, fossils, contained living microscopical organisms, which had been there for thousands of centuries.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160794, 30 October 1920, Page 5
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78100,000 YEARS OLD Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160794, 30 October 1920, Page 5
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