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IN the issue of NATURE of November 5, Mr. Dixon gave a brief account of some interesting experiments with radium upon seedlings and upon Volvox, the results of which were almost entirely negative. Like Mr. Dixon, I have been investigating the action of radium rays upon living matter, but in my experiments animals of simple structure have been employed instead of plants, and my experience leads me to think that the negative result of his experiments may have been due to the distance which separated the small quantity of radium he employed from the seedlings.
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WILLCOCK, E. Radium and Animals. Nature 69, 55 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069055b0
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