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Caption by Maclyn McCarty reads: "An example of experiments carried out in November 1941 by McCarty to reconfirm that elimination of the type III polysaccharide [the capsule material] from transforming extracts by the use of the Dubos enzyme that hydrolyzes the capsular antigen has no effect on transforming activity."