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A RECENT announcement by Messrs. Crookes, Odling, and Tidy, that Bacillus anthracis in water approximately devoid of nutrient material after “a few hours” loses its power to multiply in suitable culture-media, induces me to send you a note of my own results in the same domain.
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DOWNES, A. The Duration of Germ-Life in Water. Nature 34, 265 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034265c0
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