Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — Bacteria in Hailstones. [ARTICLE]

Bacteria in Hailstones.

Several varieties of bacteria have been discovered in freshly fallen hailstones. Two of them appear to be new, according to their discoverer, F. 0. Harrison, of Guelph, Ontario, while others are manifestly of terrestrial origin; and must have been carried up into the clouds by wind, or ascending air-currents.