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Unpublished paper, 'On a new method for the bacteriological examination of water; and on a new Bacillus discovered in rain-water' by A B Griffiths

Reference number: AP/68/6

Date: 1892

Description

Griffiths presents methods for examining waters for microbes, which include a plate cultivation method and fractional cultivation method, and shares his new method which involves cultivation in a tube.

Includes two pages of figures of experimental apparatus and results.

Subject: Microbiology / Pathology

Received 18 May 1892. Read 16 June 1892. Communicated by Dr [Edward Emanuel] Klein.

Written by Griffiths at Richmond House, Charlotte Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham [England].

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AP/68/6
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1892
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Ink on paper
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26 pages
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Manuscript
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A B Griffiths

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A B Griffiths, Unpublished paper, 'On a new method for the bacteriological examination of water; and on a new Bacillus discovered in rain-water' by A B Griffiths, 1892, AP/68/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_68_6/unpublished-paper-on-a-new-method-for-the-bacteriological-examination-of-water-and-on-a-new-bacillus-discovered-in-rain-water-by-a-b-griffiths, accessed on 18 July 2025

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