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The Action of Sunlight: A Case for Inquiry

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RECENTLY the Times published an article by Prof. Benjamin Moore on the action of sunlight, and the ensuing correspondence revealed an extreme contrariety of opinion upon a subject of primary and profound biological and civic importance. Upon such a question men of science should surely have reached some agreement, but it is not so.

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