Note 60 — Chapter IV · The Growth of Different Organisms in a State of Purity: Their Autonomy.[49]

Trécul, Comptes rendus de l’Académie, t. lxxv. p. 1169, November 11, 1872. A proof of M. Trécul’s carelessness in experiments of this kind is the fact that in studying the fertility of an impregnated wort, he often obtains different productions. Our experiments give opposite results. If we sow nothing, we obtain nothing. If we sow a plant, we obtain a similar plant; or, should there be any difference, the change may be traced, beyond question, to its origin in the plant sown, and is the consequence of some alteration in the conditions of our experiment.