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DEHERAIN (b. 1830, d. 1902), who in 1887 succeeded to Boussingauit's place in the Academie des Sciences, was, for the last twenty-two years of his life, professor of vegetable physiology as applied to agriculture at the Museum in Paris. His early work was chiefly agricultural, and included researches on calcium phosphate, on the saUs of potassium, &c.; he was author of a “Cours de Chimie agricole,” and it should not be forgotten that he founded the Annales agronomiques. In the region of pure physiology, he was author of a number of memoirs, of which those written in collaboration with Maquenne, Moissan and others are perhaps especially well known. He worked at gaseous interchange, including the absorption of oxygen by succulents and by oily seeds, also at the assimilation of CO2, being especially interested in the action of the different parts of the spectrum on this process. His researches extended to other subjects, such as transpiration, the assimilation of free nitrogen and denitrification.
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D., F. Prof. P. P. Déherain . Nature 67, 179 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067179b0
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