Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1913 — Crystallization and Life. [ARTICLE]

Crystallization and Life.

Prof. Otto Lehmann, whose announcement, a few years ago, of the existence of “liquid crystals” gave rise to much discussion, which has ended In the recognition of the reality of the phenomena described by him, maintains that although crystals themselves are not living, crystallization is the agency made use of by living growth. The similarity In aspect and behavior between certain liquid crystals and bacteria is remarkable, "and,” says a reviewer of Professor Lehmann’s work in. Nature, “can scarcely be accidental.” The same reviewer holds that Professor Lehmann has “made an important contribution th the solution of the great question confronting alike science and philosophy—What is life?"