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Paper, 'On the power of contractility exhibited by the protoplasm of certain plant cells' by Walter Gardiner

Reference number: PP/11/9

Date: 1887

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Gardiner writes: 'In a former communication (‘Roy. Soc. Proc.,’ No. 240, 1886) [see PP/7/7], some account was given of the principal changes which take place in the gland cells and stalk cells of Drosera dichotoma during secretion. The present paper deals with certain experiments and observations which were undertaken in order to attempt to ascertain by what mechanism the bending of the tentacles is made possible in Drosera, and what changes occur in the tentacle cells.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Biology / Cytology

Received 21 November 1887. Read 24 November 1887. Communicated by Michael Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 43 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the power of contractility exhibited by the protoplasm of certain plant cells'.

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PP/11/9
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1887
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Walter Gardiner

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Walter Gardiner, Paper, 'On the power of contractility exhibited by the protoplasm of certain plant cells' by Walter Gardiner, 1887, PP/11/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_11_9/paper-on-the-power-of-contractility-exhibited-by-the-protoplasm-of-certain-plant-cells-by-walter-gardiner, accessed on 23 January 2025

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