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EVERY student and teacher of botany must be familiar with the classic work of Brown and Escombe on the germination of refrigerated seeds; the relative roles of endosperm and embryo in germinating barley; on the static diffusion of gases and liquids in relation to photosynthesis and translocation in plants; the influence of varying amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide on photosynthesis and plant growth; the interchange of energy between the leaf and its surroundings; the determination of carbon dioxide in the air absorbed by plants, based on the rate of its absorption by a free surface of a solution of caustic alkali; and they will learn with regret of the sudden death of the surviving author of these important researches on October 12. Brown, who was a much older man, died in 1925. Fergusson Escombe, who was only sixty-three years of age, had given up his active career at a comparatively early age owing to ill-health and other circumstances, and thus, though his work will always hold a high place in botanical research, he himself had almost been forgotten, save by a few.
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H., A. Mr. F. Escombe. Nature 136, 900–901 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136900a0
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