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IN Prof. Bottomley's paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society I cannot read that he makes any claim that the Pseudomonas and the Azotobacter he isolated from Cycas were in any way different in kind from the usual forms of these organisms. When I used the expression “Pseudomonas, the bacterium associated with leguminous plants”, it was as a sort of explanatory label for the lay reader, but if it has confused the issue at all I would still repeat my former criticism on Prof. Bottomley's basis that the Pseudomonas and Azotebacter he used are special and unlike all others. The question was if “the association gave an increased power of assimilating free nitrogen”, and Prof. Bottomley's figures are:—
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HALL, A. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 82, 218–219 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082218b0
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