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THE sole charge of a Presidential Museum and the study of that high-road to pathological eminence, bacteriology, are unfortunately not compatible, but I have not been able to resist the rough investigation of a phenomenon which stands prominently out before my eyes as I write. It consists of a thin, homogeneous, pale pink pellicle, covering the chunam (shell-lime) walls of my house on the side exposed to the heavy monsoon rain, which is at present varying the monotony of our “fine sunny days,” which so impress our energetic coldweather visitors, who learn all about India from Calcutta to Cape Comorin in a three weeks' tour. So evenly is the pinkcoloured material distributed in my library, that its walls look as if they had been painted on one side, and whitewashed on the other three sides. This coloration, which is well known in Madras, is, I believe, commonly attributed to some occult chemical action on the lime, but a cover-glass specimen stained with methylene blue, and examined with a inch objective, decides at a glance that it is caused by a Micrococcus, which, in its microscopical appearance, presents nothing remarkable.
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THURSTON, E. Note on a Madras Micrococcus. Nature 37, 79 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037079d0
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