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I HAVE received the enclosed letter from Mexico with a request to forward it to you; and accordingly I do so, since I suppose it not impossible that the dust of space might contain life germs of some kind. I do not think the suggested bombardment by electric corpuscles sufficient cause, though electric repulsion might sometimes act, and it has been suspected that the earth may have a faint cometary tail; but no such action is needed to account for the existence of cosmic dust of any kind.
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LODGE, O. Germs in Space . Nature 67, 103 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067103c0
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