RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1864.03.01 Ceropegia grandiflora / Adhatoda cydonæfolia / Sphærostema marmorata. CUL-DAR157.1.9. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2023. RN1
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The volumes CUL-DAR157.1-2 contain notes, abstracts etc. for Darwin's long paper and later book Climbing plants (1865). It was also commercially available as a softbound offprint, F834, F834a. See R. B. Freeman's bibliographical introduction. Items CUL-DAR157.1.11-60 were in a folder marked "Twiners". Items CUL-DAR157.1.61-112 were in a folder marked "Leaf-climbers" and items CUL-DAR157.1.114-147 were in a folder marked "Tendrils". Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
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March. 1. 64.— Ceropegia grandiflora— Adhatoda Cydona Sphærostema marmorata,—
A forked stick fixed to shoot so as to travel & left many hours shewed no dull irritability. I have often tried by mere rubbing. I selected 2 latter plants because such slow movers & might require other aid. If a person swings a thong of leather round his head & it strikes an upright stick the end curls round it. This is the case excepting that cal. force replaces
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the momentum of each particle of the thong.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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