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I HAVE read with great surprise Mr. Gardiner's letter in your issue of January 20 (p. 271). We are there told that on reconsideration Mr. Gardiner has now come to the conclusion that the organism which he saw in Prof. Roy's preparations of the intestinal mucous membrane—which Prof. Roy took to be the more usual and typical form, and which Mr. Gardiner then thought to belong to the Chitridiaceæ—is probably the particular phase in the life-history of Bacterium known as an involution form, i.e. “a thin and somewhat moniliform filament which at one end exhibited a distinct nodular swelling.” If Mr. Gardiner has studied the filaments of a growth of mould in animal tissues, he must have come across numbers of such forms. But granting for the sake of argument that what Mr. Gardiner saw in Prof. Roy's specimens bears a resemblance to and is in reality an involution form of Bacterium, how about the branched threads figured in the Report by Messrs. Roy, Brown, and Sherrington in No. 247 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society, on p. 179?
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KLEIN, E. The Cambridge Cholera Fungus. Nature 35, 295 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035295d0
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