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Winners of Gold Medal at International Exhibition, 1912 
AWARDED 31 GOLD MEDALS 
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Blackmore & Langdon BATH 
STUDIES IN SEEDS 
AND FRUITS 
An Investigation with the Bala?tce 
BY 
H. B. GUPPY, M.B. 
The author has given many years to the study of the subject, and deals 
more especially with the questions of the evaporation and absorption of 
water in seeds. He is the author of the voluminous volume, “A Naturalist 
in the Pacific,” published several years back. He has studied his subject 
largely in the Pacific and the West Indies. 
Demy Svo, Cloth , nearly 6oo pp. Price 15s. net. 
“ His results, though mostly physiological, prove very suggestive in many other direc- 
tions. Masses of notebook details serve to demonstrate the author’s conscientiousness.” 
— Journal of Botany . 
WILLIAMS & NORGATE, 
viii 
