A NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH.
“The conception of our living environment has in quite recent years suffered a most startling extension,” writes the Earl of Balfour in a preface to “A System of Bacteriology in Relation to Medicine,” a work which the -Medical Research Council, of which Lord Balfour is chairman, is published in nine volumes. “We now know,” Lord Balfour adds, “that among the organisms which crowd the thin terrestrial crust of land, air, and water to which they and we are rigidly confined, incomparably the most numerous are invisible to our unaided eyes. . . Yet never before modern times has man suspected their existence, nor till a period still within living memory has he counted them among the most formidable as well as the most necessary of the natural agencies with which he has to reckon. Here, then, is a field of research, new and limitless. . . The knowledge which it is in process of gTving us turns out to be directly and indirectly connected with even - phase of human interest and activity.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 6
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173A NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH. Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 6
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