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Sprengel on the Fertilisation of Flowers

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IN NATURE, vol. xxix. p. 29, is a letter from Prof. Hagen of Cambridge, Mass., calling attention to the fact that Sprengel's treatise on the structure and fertilisation of flowers was not unappreciated in his own day. Now it so happened that only a week or two before reading this I took up by chance the “Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany,” by Sir James Edward Smith, the American edition, dated 1814. On p. 208 the author says:—

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BAILEY, W. Sprengel on the Fertilisation of Flowers. Nature 29, 171–172 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029171c0

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