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THIS was an account of a hitherto unrecorded organism, belonging to the septic series, which was found in the earlier stages of the decomposition of the macerating body of a vole. It was studied by the aid of the “continuous stage ”used by the author and Dr. Drysdale in their “Researches on the Life History of the Monads,”2 by means of which a drop of the septic fluid containing the organism can be kept under examination for an indefinite time, without evaporation; and be studied with the most delicate and powerful lenses. The method pursued was continuous study, first of the details of the several metamorphoses, and by the light thus gained, a continuous study, subsequently, of their sequences in the same individual form.
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THE LIFE-HISTORY OF A SEPTIC ORGANISM 1 . Nature 18, 102–103 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018102a0
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