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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.! 
HE EVAporaTION OF WATER FROM LEAVES (TRANSPI > 
TION). The following investigations, made by Miss Ida Twitchel 
im the Botanical Laboratory of the Iowa Apricuttaral College, 
* Edited by Pror. C. E. Bessey, Ames, Iowa. 
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