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THE recent memoirs of Pringsheim, noticed in NATURE, vol. xxi. p, 85, by Mr. Vines (“Untersuchungen über das Chlorophyll,” July and November, 1879) suggest very serious doubts as to the correctness of an inference which has crept, without the explicit consent of botanical physiologists, into the position of a fundamental doctrine of biological science. The recent excellent article in NATURE on “Vegetation under Electric Light,” together with the discussion which took place at the Royal Society when Mr. Siemens's paper describing his experiments on plants under the influence of the electric light was read, tend still further to make it desirable to examine critically the claims which the inference alluded to has on our adhesion.
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As an example see Letourneau, "Biology": Library of Contemporary Science, 1878, p. 97.
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LANKESTER, E. Does Chlorophyll Decompose Carbonic Acid? . Nature 21, 557–559 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021557a0
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