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340 In accordance with a simple corollary to the Gibbs-Thomson law.

CHAPTER VII THE FORMS OF TISSUES OR CELL-AGGREGATES

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341 It can easily be proved (by equating the increase of energy stored in an increased surface to the work done in increasing that surface), that the tension measured per unit breadth, Tÿ£¢ab, is equal to the energy per unit area, Eÿ£¢ab.

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344 In an actual calculation we must of course always take account of the tensions on both sides of each film or membrane.

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345 Hofmeister, Pringsheim〙s Jahrb. III, p. 272, 1863; Hdb. d. physiol. Bot. I, 1867, p. 129.

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346 Sachs, Ueber die Anordnung der Zellen in jû¥ngsten Pflanzentheilen, Verh. phys. med. Ges. Wû¥rzburg, XI, pp. 219〓242, 1877; Ueber Zellenanordnung und Wachsthum, ibid. XII, 1878; Ueber die durch Wachsthum bedingte Verschiebung kleinster Theilchen in trajectorischen Curven, Monatsber. k. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880; Physiology of Plants, chap. xxvii, pp. 431〓459, Oxford, 1887.

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