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183, on the “Absorption of Water by the Leaves of Plants,” as a correction of a fallacy long held by many physiological botanists in antagonism to the experience of plain observers of nature.

THE ten chapters making up this book are for the most part extracts from the author's diaries written among the scenes described, and papers prepared for meetings of a natural history society.