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THE evolution of the vegetable cell—using the word evolution as defined by Herbert Spencer—is a subject of immense interest that is now engaging the attention of some of the most scientific of the botanists. While the important researches of Carl Nägeli on cell-structure and cell-development can never be over-estimated, yet in these more recent times we are greatly indebted to the original and remarkable researches of Eduard Strasburger, which have thrown a flood of light on the subject, and opened out for it new and as yet untrodden by-paths. His thoughtful work, “Ueber Befruchtung und Zelltheilung,” ought to be in the hands of every student. It is not here purposed to analyse the contents of this volume, now more than eighteen months on our shelves, but in it, we fear somewhat overlooked, we find the subject of the cellular-structure of the “pollen grains” in the angiosperms first mentioned, at least, in very recent times, and we are glad to perceive that the facts relating thereto have been recently restudied, and in some detail, by Fredr. Elfving, of Helsingfors, under the eye of Strasburger, and in his physiological laboratory at Jena.
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WRIGHT, E. On Pollen Plants . Nature 20, 225–226 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020225a0
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