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Volume 10, Issue 5
20 May 1927
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Article| May 20 1927

A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIRCUMFERENCE AND WEIGHT IN TREES AND ITS BEARING ON BRANCHING ANGLES

Cecil D. Murray
Cecil D. Murray
From Harvard University, Cambridge.
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Cecil D. Murray
From Harvard University, Cambridge.
Accepted: February 21 1927
Online ISSN: 1540-7748
Print ISSN: 0022-1295
Copyright, 1927, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
1927
J Gen Physiol (1927) 10 (5): 725–729.
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.10.5.725
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Accepted:
February 21 1927

Observation reveals a linear relationship between the logarithm of the circumference of a tree, branch, or leaf stem, and the logarithm of the weight of the tree, branch, or leaf. The bearing of this on the angles of branching in trees is discussed.

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