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Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full leather hardback with gilt lettered label; head, tail and joints rubbed and worn, but still showing well and holding firm. Contents age toned and occasionally spotted, especially the title-page, with also just a couple of very small King's Inn library stamps. Size: 8vo. Collation: pp. [2], 233, complete with 2 engraved plates. Bound with a second work by Achille Richard published in 1825: Nouveaux Elements de Botanique et de Physiologie Vegetale (pp. xxiv, 519, complete with 8 engraved plates). Thus 2 titles in 1 book. Note, the first work by Dutrochet is a very scarce landmark study: "Dutrochet asserted that respiration follows the same pattern in both animals and plants, showing that the minute openings on the surface of leaves (the stomata) communicate with lacunae in deeper tissue. He also demonstrated that only the green parts of the plant can absorb carbon dioxide, thereby transforming light energy into chemical…
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Recherches Anatomiques et Physiologiques sur la Structure intime des Animaux et des Vegetaux et sur leur Motilite
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