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may look forward at no distant time, when we consider the ardent and gratifying zeal which has been awakened and cherished, especially amongst our contemporaries, in favour of the sound and scientific study of the anatomy and physiology of plants.
I have attempted in this Memoir, so far as lay in my power, to solve many interesting questions in Vegetable Physiology, or, by more accurate definitions of the subject, to advance nearer to a future solution. May these observations meet with a friendly reception at the hands of the vegetable physiologists of Germany, and be speedily improved upon and extended.
