Rustic Sounds And Other Studies in Literature And Natural History
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57) that an annual rainfall of 22 inches is "sufficient for all the purposes of nature, in such flat countries as this about Tedding- ton." He constantly notes small points of interest, e.g. (p. 82) that with cut branches the water ab- sorbed diminishes each day, and that the former vigour of absorption may be partly renewed by cut ti na fresh surface.^ He also showed (p. 89) that the transpiration current can flow perfectly well from apex to base when the apical end is immersed in water. These... are familiar facts to us, but we should realise that it is to the industry and ingenuity of Hales that we owe them. In a repetition (p. 90) of the last experiment we have the first mention of a fact fundamentally important. He took two branches (which with a clerical touch he calls M and N), and having removed the bark from a part of the branch, dipped the ends in water, iV with the great end downwards but M upside down. In this way he showed that the bark was not necessary for the absorpltion or transmission of water.^ I suspect • Compare F.
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