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I SHOULD be glad to know whether anyone has ever attempted to test the hypothesis of Helmholtz and Lord Kelvin that meteorites are possibly the carriers of organised matter. By pulverising a portion taken from the interior of a meteorite it would, I should suppose, be easy to dissolve out and detect any organic matter that was there. The result in any particular case would probably be negative; still, wilder experiments have been tried before now.
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WARD, J. Organisms and Meteorites. Nature 69, 393 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069393b0
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