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THERE is no doubt that the explanation of the production of these vacuoles as given in NATURE of November 11 by Prof. Henry H. Dixon is the correct one. It may perhaps be of interest to Prof. Dixon to refer to a paper by W. Stempell published in 1914 in Zoolog. Jahrb., Abt. allg. Zool. u. Physiol. der Tiere (Bd. 34, iii., p. 437), where the same view is put forward. I believe that this journal is not very accessible—a fact which doubtless accounts for its having been overlooked. I may say that it is my custom to teach this view, and a brief account will be found on p. 162 of my “Principles of General Physiology.”
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BAYLISS, W. Contractile Vacuoles. Nature 106, 376 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106376d0
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