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ALTHOUGH many studies have been made of the microflora of the air over temperate regions, little such work has been done in the Arctic. Meier and Lindbergh1 made some preliminary studies by exposing petrolatum-coated slides at various points during Lindbergh‘s northern flight in 1933, six of these exposures being north of the Arctic Circle over Greenland. Owing to the death of Dr. Meier, only a brief report was published2. The following account presents the results of a series of exposures of nutrient plates in arctic and subarctic Canada in 1947, and also preliminary studies of the subcultures of bacteria and fungi obtained from these plates. The exposures were made by Prof. Polunin with the facilities provided by the Royal Canadian Air Force, of which a general account has recently been published3. ‘Vaselined' slides were exposed at the same time for rust spores, pollen grains, etc., and the results of this examination will be published separately.
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Polunin, Nicholas, Pady, S. M., and Kelly, C. D., Nature, 160, 876 (1947); see also Arctic, 1, 60 (1948).
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Proctor, B. E., and Parker, B. W., J. Bact., 36, 175 (1938).
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PADY, S., KELLY, C. & POLUNIN, N. Arctic Aerobiology, II Preliminary Report on Fungi and Bacteria Isolated from the Air in 1947. Nature 162, 379–381 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162379a0
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