Experiments and observations on the vegetation of plants : which shew that the common opinion of the amelioration of the atmosphere by vegetation in solar light, is ill founded / by James Woodhouse.

  • Woodhouse, James, 1770-1809.
Date:
[1802?]
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Credit: Experiments and observations on the vegetation of plants : which shew that the common opinion of the amelioration of the atmosphere by vegetation in solar light, is ill founded / by James Woodhouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Experiments and Obfervations on the Vegetation of Plants, which Jhew that the common Opinion of the Amelioration of the At- mofphere, by Vegetation in Solar Light, is ill founded. By James Wood ho use, M. D. Profeffor of Chemijlry in the Univerfity of Plnnfylvania, Sfb. To Mr. NICHOLSON. SIR, Pater Nofier Roxv, May 27, 1802. I INCLOSE for the Philofophical Journal, the refults of va- Introduftoi? rious experiments, made in Philadelphia in the year 1801, up-letter- on the feeds, leaves, &c. of a variety of plants, which feem to prove, that growing vegetables, contrary to an opinion almoft univerfally adopted, do not purify atmofpherical air; and that whenever