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STUDIES ON THE PLANT CELL. I. 



BRADLEY MOORE DAVIS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



is of papers that will follow one 

 American Naturalist. They will 

 in plant cells and the most 

 histories, largely from the point of 

 tudent of developmental processes, 

 has entirely outrun the general 

 several botanical text books and 

 zoologists. We shall attempt to 

 subject in its present state with 

 nt papers ; but this is not to be an 

 ire that is already very large and 

 :d far more satisfactorily several 

 passed through the criticism that 

 y active botanical investigation, 

 ^ason to be proud of the achieve- 

 -esearch upon the morphology and 

 r much of the best work of recent 

 'his in itself has been a great stim- 

 nese brief accounts which he hopes 

 : to a clearer understanding of the 

 will also serve to contrast the pro- 

 mts with those of the animal cell 

 in several foreign works and in 

 n Development and Inheritance. 

 lly gratified if these papers should 

 /ards investigations on the plant 



"cemriS!Tl l fl!!Wr^ffl^^^B^ prevalent among botanists. There 

 is a tendency to regard cell studies as a very special field of 

 botanical research with elaborate technique which the average 



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