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without any dissolution of continuity: that is to say, without any mark, as thought the union had been effected at the molecular level. The little box was ce a accompanied by some simple instructions on its use, providing for the utterance of certain determined vowels in a fixed order, whereupon the mechanism was activated. - id 1.june,20.00, SAN JOSE de VALDERAS, SPAIN? Fearing that the instrument might explode in his hands the Professor refused to do the test in his own home, and took the little box off to site Faculty laboratory at a time of the day when nobody was using the premises. Before doing so, he had borrowed from a colleague a Canon camera loaded with colour film, and Arrived at the laboratory, the Professor set the little Black box down on a piece of baize-cloth and, holding the paper in his trembling hands, pronounced the vowels in the order indicated. Immediately the translucent screen on the little box lit up, became transparent, and the Professor was able to contemplate, inside the box, a histological specimen, greatly enlarged, in colour, and alive, showing a neuron. the Professor filmed the device while it was in operation and then, following the instructions as they were given, he saw two more historical specitnens appear. 16 his colleague was asked to explain to him how to work it.