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MAY I ask Dr. Burdon Sanderson to kindly state in your columns one or two matters relating to the cheese employed by Dr. Bastian in the experiments at which he assisted. He justly remarks on the value of a knowledge of methods of demonstrating important facts—and I would therefore ask for the advantage of other readers as well as my own—some further information. I have already to thank Dr. Bastian for stating the specific gravity of his turnip-solution, in reply to my request. In Dr. Sanderson's letter additional particulars are given, which also do not form part of the statement of those conditions under which Dr. Bastian tells us in his book on the “Beginnings of Life,” that he has in the proportion of 999 cases out of 1,000 obtained a development of Bacteria from turnip-solution—boiled and sealed boiling. It appears that Dr. Bastian considers it a condition favourable to success—that the rind of the turnip be excluded from the preparation of the infusion. This is for the first time announced in Dr. Sanderson's letter. Also it is there for the first time that an accurate description of the flasks (not tubes) used, and of the quantity of infusion enclosed in each flask is given.
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LANKESTER, E. Dr. Sanderson's Experiments. Nature 7, 242–243 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007242e0
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