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IN a recent letter to NATURE,1 Messrs. Lipman and Greenberg have described a coccus or cocco-bacillus occurring in petroleum obtained from a Californian oil well 8700 ft. in depth, and have stated that it has the power of oxidising petroleum with the production of carbon dioxide. This is an interesting addition to the list of micro-organisms which have been recorded as capable of decomposing paraffin hydrocarbons.2
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Thorpe, W. H., "The Biology of the Petroleum Fly, Psilopa petrolei." Trans. Entom. Sac. Lond., 78, 331–344; 1930.
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THORPE, W. Petroleum Bacteria and the Nutrition of Psilopa petrolei. Nature 130, 437 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130437a0
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