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QUITE recently I received a communication from Mr. J. Omer-Cooper in the course of which he said: “When examining the contents of a frog's rectum yesterday in the course of our lab. work I noticed several living Ostracods. The frog had been kept for some time in a small aquarium which contains a good many ostracods. I have pickled up some of the contents of the rectum and also some of the ostracods from the aquarium…. The frog was chloroformed, well washed under the tap and dissected in normal salt solution. There is no chance that accidental contamination of the preparation can have taken place.”
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LOWNDES, A. Living Ostracods in the Rectum of a Frog. Nature 126, 958 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126958c0
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