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IN Nature of September 27, p. 547, Dr. L. G. E. Bell asks for the source of Edmond About's information on the technique of the preservation of tissues described in 1862 in About's scientific novel “L'homme à l'oreille cassée”. The material that I am actually collecting for the purpose of writing the history, which covers nearly a century, of the Marine Laboratory at Concarneau, enables me, I believe, to reply.
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LEGENDRE, R. Edmond About and the Technique of Freezing and Drying Tissues. Nature 170, 1080 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/1701080a0
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