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WHILE not disputing the relatively high speed attained by this organism1, exception must be taken to Mr. A. G. Lowndes' statement "thus the organism has a relative speed of more than forty, or, in other words, traverses forty times its own length in a second, and on this simple calculation the organism has a relative speed which is twice that of the most modern 'Spitfire' and a thousand times that of a modern destroyer". The figure for a destroyer is nearer two hundred in lieu of one thousand. Moreover, the 'length', for the purpose of such a comparison, should be a dimension in the same plane as the direction of motion.
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TUTIN, J. Swimming of Monas stigmatica. Nature 155, 795 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155795a0
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