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may look forward at no distant time, when we consider the 
ardent and gratifying zeal which has been awakened and 
cherished, especially amongst our contemporaries, in favour of 
the sound and scientific study of the anatomy and physiology 
of plants. 
I have attempted in this Memoir, so far as lay in my power, 
to solve many interesting questions in Vegetable Physiology, or, 
by more accurate definitions of the subject, to advance nearer 
to a future solution. May these observations meet with a 
friendly reception at the hands of the vegetable physiclogists 
of Germany, and be speedily improved upon and extended. 
