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Dr. SANDERSON has strangely misunderstood the wording of my letter which appeared in NATURE on the 9th inst. Any one may see that I did not challenge him to “deal” with my main proposition “that Bacteria are capable of arising in fluids independently of living reproductive or germinal particles.” That position was merely alluded to by me in order to show the relevancy of the question which I asked Dr. Sanderson and the question itself was—“Whether he still believes that Bacteria are killed by a temperature of 100° C. in fluids; and if not upon what grounds he has changed his opinion?”
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BASTIAN, H. Dr. Sanderson's Experiments and Archebiosis. Nature 8, 548–549 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008548a0
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