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IT will be in the recollection of many who are present this evening that in February of last year I had the honour of delivering a Friday evening discourse on a subject which included that which has been announced for to-night. In that lecture I had hoped to present to you a comprehensive view of the excitatory motions both of plants and of animals; that is, of those motions which they perform in response to transitory impressions received by them from outside. I was desirous that the statements that I made to you with reference to animal excitability should be as fully as possible illustrated by experiments, in the carrying out of which much more time was lost than I had reckoned for; so that I was unable even to enter on the second part of my subject. The time at my disposal will not permit me to summarise my last lecture, however advantageous it might be to do so. I must content myself with recalling your attention to one or two fundamental points.
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The Excitability of Plants 1 . Nature 26, 353–356 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026353a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026353a0