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IN the year 1905 I made what I believe was the first direct test of Stokes's formula for the fall of small spheres in air by using spores liberated spontaneously from the pilei of the mushroom and of allied fungi. The conclusion to which I then came was that the spores of these fungi fall at a rate which is roughly in accordance with Stokes's formula, and this fact was announced by Prof. A. J. Ewart in his translation of Pfeffer's “Physiology of Plants” (vol. iii., 1905, p. 416). The results of further observation were communicated to the Royal Society in 1907 in a paper which I subsequently withdrew.1
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BULLER, A. The Rate of Fall of Fungus Spores in Air. Nature 80, 186–187 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080186a0
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