It is reported that Michael Faraday gave a lecture at the Royal Institute which attacked all those who doubted Crosse. Then both Messrs. Weeks and Faraday both agreed that the experiment did indeed give birth to a life form that Crosse called the acari. To this day, scientists are mystified as to what Crosse actually discovered. Some believe the acari were Glyophagus Domesticus, an insect which seems to hold onto life in no matter what conditions. Others believe that Crosse merely created chemical constituents which took the appearance of something living.
Crosse is now all but forgotten.
However, in a way his legacy does live on in the shape of a classical horror story of a man who created life and watched as it destroyed him, Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein .