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Chlorophyll a Sensitiser

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IT was with a feeling of great satisfaction that I read the concluding lines of Dr. H. Brown's highly interesting presidential address (NATURE, September 14, 1899). I was glad to see that this distinguished chemist, to whom the physiology of plants is so much indebted, adopts certain views on the chlorophyll function, which I have been defending for more than a quarter of a century against the leading authorities of the German Physiological School (Sachs and Pfeffer). But since some slight errors seem to have crept into Dr. Brown's statements of my opinions on the subject, I may, perhaps, be allowed to bring forward the following corrections.

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TIMIRIAZEFF, C. Chlorophyll a Sensitiser. Nature 62, 102–103 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062102b0

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