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THE standard accounts of the cotton fibre are curiously inaccurate. Mr. W. Scott Taggart has directed attention to some of the more glaring errors in his “Cotton Spinning” (vol. i., 1896; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.), as did also the present writer independently in 1905 (Khedivial Agricultural Society's Yearbook, 1905), when the cytology of the fibre was traced up to a week after the opening of the flower. Some additions to this account were outlined in my “Cotton Plant in Egypt” (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912), and a serious attempt was then made to ascertain how and when environmental effects operated on the properties of the fibre during maturation, and also to elucidate the real nature of the infinitesimal differences which the “sixth sense” of the expert classifier of lint cotton can perceive.
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BALLS, W. The Development and Properties of the Cotton Fibre . Nature 93, 308–309 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093308a0
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