Abstract
ABSTRACT Starch, from its physiological importance, remarkable structural peculiarities, and general diffusion through the vegetable kingdom, has been a favourite subject of investigation with physiologists and microscopists. However, not-, withstanding the attention which has been devoted to its structure and development, it is acknowledged by the greatest physiologists to be known but little of. (See Mr. Busk’s paper on “Starch Granules,” in the number of the ‘Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science’ for April, 1853.) There are, doubtless, intrinsic difficulties attending the investigation of this substance, but these have been very much augmented by the principle on which the examination has been conducted, namely, the cellular hypothesis. If this hypothesis had been in itself correct, and admissible as a basis of explanation of the facts connected with the structure and mode of formation of the starch granule, it ought, considering the amount of talent and ingenuity which have been employed in its application to these inquiries, to have thrown more light upon these much disputed, and as yet entirely unsettled questions.
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