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No one would have read Prof. Bayliss's review (NATURE of December 12, p. 285) of Dr. Jacques Loeb's experiments on the “chemical correlationship” in plant growth with greater interest than John Hunter, for he had carried out many experiments on growing beans to elucidate the phenomena which are now explained on the theory of hormones. Hunter was familiar with phenomena of a similar kind in animals, and his experiments on plants were made primarily to elucidate that mysterious mechanism which went in Hunter's time under the name of "sympathy". An account of Hunter's experiments, carried out between 1772 and 1790, will be found in “Essays and Observations by John Hunter”, edited by Sir Richard Owen, and published in 1861 (vol. i., p. 367). These observations were saved from destruction by William Clift.
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KEITH, A. The Theory of Hormones Applied to Plants. Nature 102, 305 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102305a0
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