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RECENTLY it was discovered at Plymouth that Monas stigmatica, E. G. Pringsheim, which is a small flagellate organism with a length of 6 μ, was, under the proper conditions, capable of traversing a length of 260 μ in a second. Thus the organism has a relative speed of more than forty, or in other words it traverses forty times its own length in a second, and on this simple calculation the organism has a relative speed which is twice that of the most modern 'Spitfire' and a thousand times that of a modern destroyer.
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LOWNDES, A. Swimming of Monas stigmatica. Nature 155, 579 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155579a0
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