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EXPERIENCE FROM PAST CONFLXTS. 55nine examples of fermentible liquids whichhad renzained over from the earlier experimentsof 1873-74, and these thirty-nine exampleswere subjected to careful experimentand observation. In the first ten cases, thetube was heated in oil for fifteen minutes upto two hundred and eighty degrees Fahr.; theten tubes were then set in a warm place (fromseventy degrees to eighty degrees Fahr.) fora fortnight; the contents were transparent; thealkali was then allowed to mingle with it, andthe tubes were placed in an incubator keptat a temperature of one hundred and fifteendegrees Fahr.; at the end of two days therewas a sediment, and the liquor was clear; thetubes were replaced in the incubator, the temperaturebeing raised to one hundred andtwenty-two degrees Fahr. as recommendedby Dr. Bastian; there they ~ontinued for threedays; they were then withdrawn and placedunder the microscope, but no trace of livingorganism was found either in the fluid or inthe deposit under it. The twenty-nine cases,including a variety of vegetable and animalpreparations were next treated in like manner,and with like results. Tyndall's experimentswere reported to the Royal Society of London