, 1877-12-28
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.

A1ps-1Inw Vegetable aAd Mineral IuFu-
sEons Differ.
London Timer.
Prof. Tyntlall delivered the opening lecture Of
tho winter session Oh sloutlny night, Dec. 10, at
tho London Instituttun. lie satli that within
tet, minutes walk Of little cottage which lc
1las recently built In tho Alps .hurc is q small
lake fed by tha melted SHOWS OF tho upper
mountains. During the early weeks OF summer
o traco Of lie Is to bs tlscetncl In tlla water,
hut Invariably towarJ the cnd Of July Or
beginning Of August swarms: OF tailed
organisms arc seen enjoying the sun's warmth
along tho shallow uargtns Of tho lake. and rush.
fng With audible pattcr Into tho deeper water Mt
tho approach ot danger. Tho ortglu Of this
periodic crowd Of living things 10 by no means
obvious. Fur years he llaa never npttcct! in tho
lake either m adult frog or the smallest fsng-
,nent VI froE'sspawn, so that, wcro he not other
wise Informed, he should have found tho couyIu-
sion Vi ktakLi,la natural ono.-natnely: that
ta.lpo,cs asa generated In lako mud by the ylv-
lying action Of the sun.
The checks which experience alone Gun fur
ntsh being absent, the spontaneous generation
of animals quite ~ high tho frog In tho scale
of IefuG MIA assumed for ngcs "a fact. For
ucatly twenty centuries after Aristotle men
found no difficulty In believing in cases OF spon-
taacous 9cnosatlon Which would now he regard
cd rs 1nunstrous by tic inost fanattcal support
cru OF tic tlocertnc Tho ,liscovory of the micro
scope, revealing u world VI lllc furuiel Of
tin ultiInato rartlcjrs Of 1pattcras 10 suggest
an easy passuge from ntoms to organisms, ru-
Ytycd tho dying ductrlne. Or. Tyndall traxe,t
Its support b. Dgtfon and Ncelham (l748), and
Spallanzani tlT1Dl Y:hu1ze U833), Bghwapn,
IIr1mhoJtz. Schroctirr. md Won ljusch. In 1HN}
rourhct, q vigorous ainl aracnt writsr, stronsly NV
iniiueliced opinion ia favor Of spontaneoua Een-
Tastcur published hia classical paper IN 1859,
lila bus applied tho knowiedgs won irotn liz in.
uuirica to tic preservation Il vino aud beer, to
OF li.o plague wl,icl, threatened iestructiGn TO
'tha riik bnsbanury iu FRANCS, Prof. Listcr has
thanked, I,IID in d publtekel letter for having
furnished the only prturlplo which would hare
sueceasful SUCCESS Issue. M ''~ '''@S4' - ''' ~ .
Our knowicu0e aae been Rrcat1y extended by
pruf. (,phn. Of DresI1u. HSo m,trofacttnn.h
lie says !" can occur in = heterogeneous substa,lee
,ts es a1S .,s, sg oaes se ~
minute anmats, so called from lie cxl.lIts M.
pcara1lro of sor1e Of tlicn, which aEu nuw
thought to 10 ut tho root vi discasu no well es Of
aSos iaysr mas aens ~ ss uoniss 1esTssn
tllc person sulItfcn by It and spccic orvan,sIa
whieh VIII muitipIies at his o1llsuss. % appiop1issitr
lila air aud uloisturc dsiulcEratlng his tlisucs,
f,r n,,ann1nv him hv lila Observation-Disclosures IL
causes - .''N >'~ '
Dr, Typuall referred in detail 10 lis a1pcri.
mcute lnado this sutu1uor on the Bel. Ain atoyo
lie i,l,onu Valley. tllo duot. 70o0 fcut aGuya tho
sca being selected for tks sake OF tIo rurity ii
the S ar % and its lresdon from mo- orrauislnt. '
Hixty Hasks HnuIi bo lliicI In thu manner tla.
scrthc;} in I'm lo.sm,n vii An iug.son ~ iscf.
muttun, tu[n.p, and u,c,itnbvr, storijized by
boiling, api herinpt,cally SEALED, Tncy aro
trnns;s,rtc.i to ti,r xips. It /, the ms,1th f Of
JuIY autI tic grathcr il fayorablu to nutrefae-
tlon. IL tha Nui.Aln '1ittv-fouf ',ltasLs nr<,
couutcI out with titetr llouida ns clear
~ Uttered drinking guicr. Iu TX
|, iIa,ks. however. l!ia stnfusun ia fo,,n1
muddy. On ssau,l,stion II il tlisrovcrei that
cvsrv nh. nt the.. Itu" mi Its fra,s .,"s .nI
broken On in lie trauslt from Ion.io1,. Air
hna n,tere 1Iuaka ann ,ni,,lIinnss Ix Tim r.,it
ExatulllyI With i tuicftxcrunc III insutctunt
1nsrr n<,hiuv IL scum IN in n,n,v ii"miJ. !.
hnt rsrar'Iat with n ,,svnifyinrr ,;wer ~ .
fn,msand liam stera. Hhns m nstortshtnp On.
pcara',rs dues It present. ''-'''0'9 -
Singh Irot, Ut xtaeuunt watcr al sxi0t,o. i'm:
nf.n v sns u III. r. ien sp.s a tns "I ts
Thc fe;u Of tho mc,o.eopv ts % crowded viii, or.
si.notm9 rsm'Sv q, r,,ss liz n;crns'',nt, It'll
Nmi IL ths rn"st ,r,hr.t"I n"tnrn1;sts III -.
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