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Paper, 'On the continuity of the protoplasm in the motile organs of leaves' by Walter Gardiner

Reference number: PP/2/28

Date: 1882

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Gardiner writes: 'In a preliminary note published in the “Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,” for October, 1882, I stated that I had succeeded in demonstrating that the continuity of the protoplasm of adjacent cells in the pulvinus of Mimosa pudica was maintained by protoplasmic filaments, which passed through pits in the cell wall. I have since then shown that the same occurs in Robinia and Amicia.' He communicates the results of a new series of experiments.

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Botany

Received 11 November 1882. Read 16 November 1882. Communicated by [Michael] Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 34 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the continuity of the protoplasm in the motile organs of leaves'.

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PP/2/28
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1882
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Walter Gardiner

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Walter Gardiner, Paper, 'On the continuity of the protoplasm in the motile organs of leaves' by Walter Gardiner, 1882, PP/2/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_2_28/paper-on-the-continuity-of-the-protoplasm-in-the-motile-organs-of-leaves-by-walter-gardiner, accessed on 06 December 2025

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