Note 56 — Chapter V · ANTAGONISM BETWEEN GROWTH AND ASEXUAL GENESIS.
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Even this number is far exceeded. Dr. Edward Klein, in a lecture he gave at the Royal Institution on June 2, 1898, asserted that 246 bacteria in a cubic centimetre of nutritive liquid would multiply to 20,000,000 in the course of twenty-four hours: a rate which, at the end of the third day, would give, as the offspring of one individual, 537,367,797,000,000.