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Amæbæ —> Amœbæ
continuea —> continued
translalations —> translations
Harvar —> Harvard
ST. —> St.
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disowned. But these are not its best features: its sustained power of reasoning, its wide sweep of observation and reflection, its elevated ethical and social tone, stamp it as a work of high excellence, and as such we cordially recommend it to our readers.”--Saturday Review.
Inconsistently labelled passages of text are as in the original, e.g. a b c d; a b c e; _ b c e;
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Fig. 2.—Bacteria, Vibriones, and Leptothrix filaments.
THE MODES OF ORIGINOFLOWEST ORGANISMS:INCLUDINGA DISCUSSION OF THE EXPERIMENTS
OF M. PASTEUR,AND A REPLY TO SOME STATEMENTS BY PROFESSORS
HUXLEY AND TYNDALL.
PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON;
ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, AND TO THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL
FOR THE EPILEPTIC AND PARALYSED.
“Quant à ce qui concerne la prétendue incubation d’œufs d’Infusoires dansl’infusion, il faudrait d’abord prouver l’existence de ces œufs. Les dit-on troppetits pour être aperçus, c’est avouer qu’on ne peut rien savoir de leur existence.* * * Croire que partout où l’on rencontre des Infusoires, ils ont été précédés d’œufs,c’est donc admettre une pure hypothèse, qui n’a d’autre fondement que l’analogie.* * * Si c’est seulement par l’analogie qu’on suppose des œufs chez eux, il fautaccorder à ces œufs des propriétés semblables à celles de tous les œufs connus; carce serait jouer sur les mots que de supposer