Soil Acidity and Survival of Hookworm Larvæ. A Reply to Dr. Hirst's Critical Commentary
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on survival due to an unfavourably influenced development. I am in full agreement with Dr. Hirst's ideas as amplified in his critical commentary of my paper. I am sorry that Dr. Hirst misinterpreted my paper to the extent of inferring that I assumed that soil acidity exerts its main influence on the infective stage of the life history of hookworm larvae and that my whole investigation was based on this erroneous assumption. I gladly agree with Dr. Hirst that such an assumption, had I made it, would have been quite unjustifiable and erroneous. I considered the development and the continued survival of hookworm larvae as two separate phases of the problem, and purposely confined myself to a consideration of
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