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IN Prof. Tyndall's account of the labours of Mayer, a paragraph is devoted to the bearing of his principles upon the phenomena of vegetable life. It suggests two points of difficulty to me:—1. It is said that “Mayer's utterances are far from being anticipated by vague statements regarding the ‘stimulus’ of light, or regarding coal as ‘bottled sunlight.’” Nevertheless the paragraph reads almost like a paraphrase of the following passage from Sir John Herschel's “Outlines of Astronomy” (1833), p. 211:—
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DYER, W. Mayer and De Saussure. Nature 5, 181–182 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005181c0
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