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AN interesting essay on the presence, function, and form of iron in plants, embodying the results of previous investigators and of the author's experiments and researches extending over several years. Though the outcome of much labour, Dr. Molisch regards it as preliminary to more extended inquiries, and the whole subject as being yet in its infancy. He discusses the determination of the presence in the vegetable cell of iron in loose combinations and in dense combinations, or what he terms the masked condition. He then describes the occurrence and distribution of iron in plants in loose and dense combinations, and enters somewhat fully into the description of a new method he claims to have discovered for proving the existence of iron in ths masked condition, even when it is present only in infinitesimally small quantities. This is done by soaking the objects one or more days or weeks in saturated aqueous liquor potassæ, and then, after quickly washing them in pure water, subjecting them to the usual reagents. He further claims to have proved that iron is not one of the constituents of chlorophyll. There is also a short chapter on healing vegetable chlorosis by the use of chloride of iron, sulphate of iron, and other salts of iron.
Die Pflanze in ihren Beziehungen zum Eisen.
Von Dr. Hans Molisch. Iron in its Relations to Plant-life. 8vo, 119 pages, with one coloured plate. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1892.)
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H., W. Die Pflanze in ihren Beziehungen zum Eisen. Nature 46, 512 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046512a0
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