Aluminum Shell
notes: label: Description
content: Aluminum shell used for transpiration experiments, and designed to prevent evaporation from the pot and the soil. The form was.developed by William Francis Ganong (1864-1941), professor of botany at Smith College, and manufactured by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. This example was used at Trinity College in Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ganong Botanical Apparatus for Use in Plant Physiology (Rochester, N.Y., 1914), pp. 35-36.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Trinity College, Department of Biology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0367.08
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0367.08
label: accession number
content: 1982.0367
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aluminum Shell
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: clay (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.5 cm x 11.2 cm; 3 3/4 in x 4 7/16 in