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A Tortoise inclosed in Ice

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DURING the last winter there was a good deal of correspondence in the columns of NATURE regarding the revivability of fish and insects that had been frozen hard. A similar phenomenon with regard to the tortoise having recently come under my notice, it may perhaps be interesting to some of your readers to have it put on record.

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COSTE, F. A Tortoise inclosed in Ice. Nature 44, 520 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044520a0

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