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As I have been much interested in the controversy concerning the composition of the edible bird's-nest, and particularly in the bearing of Mr. Green's investigations, which are given at length in your last issue (p. 81), would you permit me to give the result of some observations I made on this subject in the Solomon Islands. It will be remembered that it was the association of these nests with a so-called “fungoid growth” in the caves of North Borneo that led Mr. Pryer to consider that he had found the source of the material of which the nests are made, a supposed discovery which led to the re-opening of the controversy (NATURE, vol. xxx. p. 271). This low plant-substance was determined by Mr. George Murray to be the result of the growth of a microscopic alga, a species, probably new, of Glæocapsa (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1884, p. 532).
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GUPPY, H. The Composition of the Edible Bird's-Nest. Nature 34, 100 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034100a0
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