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IN reference to the letter of Profs. Farmer and Blackman in NATURE of February 12, it seems needful to state that only two of my tubes were opened in their presence. One of them showed, as I had predicted, bodies very closely resembling Torul, in large numbers. They were not, however, typical Torul, such as are represented in Figs. 1, 3, and 5, of my communication published in NATURE of January 22, and I am prepared to admit some doubt as to their nature. The other tube showed, as others of the same series had done, peculiar spores, which when shown together with their mycelium (as in Fig. 2) to an eminent fungologist, were said by him to belong to a mould allied to the genus Oospora. He had no doubt as to its nature; and I am certain that these moulds must have grown within the tubes after their sterilisation, in one case to the extent of producing, after sixteen months, two tufts plainly visible to the naked eye.
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BASTIAN, H. The Evidence for Spontaneous Generation . Nature 92, 685 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092685a0
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