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REFERRING to Dr. Saleeby's letter in NATURE of December 8, p. 466, I may report that, in conjunction with the late Marshall Ward, professor of botany at Cooper's Hill, I carried out a number of experiments at Liverpool near the end of last century on the effect of light in slaughtering anthrax bacilli. Prof. Ward prepared the cultures, covered them seriatim with a quartz plate which I lent him, and then sent them to me to be exposed to a suitably arranged are light through quartz lenses and a quartz prism, discriminating the kind of light by its effect on fluorescent paper pasted at the side. The experiments were never properly published, though they are partly described in Prof. Ward's memoir on the subject in the Phil. Trans. Unfortunately, I do not possess the B series to refer to, but Dr. Saleeby could easily find the paper, and I think it would interest him.
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LODGE, O. The Action of Sunlight. Nature 108, 496 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108496a0
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