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THE inoculation material for our stock cultures of Amœba at Notre Dame was procured either from Killarney or Milngavie. From the outset each culture was numbered and its subsequent history entered in a field-book, so that we know the origin and history of any material given to the various universities and schools which have asked for it during the past thirty years. Early on, it was suspected that culture 14 was different from the other cultures, but many researches were pressing, and I had not time to look into the matter. The culture accumulated and sub-cultures were made. In 1949 and 1950 I devoted time to the examination of the cytoplasmic movements of the individual amœbæ and concluded that they were not those characteristic of A. proteus. In 1952 I completed the investigation. The creatures in culture 14 are Amœba discoides, the life-history of which has been worked out by Sister Carmela Hayes1. Up to date, the species has been recorded from the neighbourhood of Oxford and Grimsby.
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Quart. J. Micro. Sci., 80, 459 (1946).
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TAYLOR, M. Amœba discoides recorded for Milngavie, Dunbartonshire. Nature 171, 225 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171225a0
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