Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 82: Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character (Classic Reprint) - pocketboek

Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 82: Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character

The analyses were carried out in the Caius College Chemical Laboratory, and my thanks are due to Dr. Ruhemann, of Caius College, for placing his apparatus at my disposal, and giving me every facility.

If photosynthesis resulted in the accumulation of some known single substance, the increase of dry weight could be accurately calculated from the gain of carbon. As, however, starch, various sugars, proteids, and even oils may be produced, any basis for calculation must be in some degree arbitrary, and perfect correspondence between the calculated increase and that actually observed is not to be expected.

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