RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & George Darwin. n.d. French weight English grains. CUL-DAR157.2.100. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
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-DAR157.11-60 were in a folder marked "Twiners". Items CUL-DAR157.61-112 were in a folder marked "Leaf-climbers" and items CUL-DAR157.114-147 were in a folder marked "Tendrils". Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
See Darwin's query in CUL-DAR157.2.99.
[100]
1 milligramme ∴ 1 English grain |
= .0154 English Grains = 1/.0154 milligrammes = 64.9 milligrammes |
For [calculations not transcribed]
grain = 15.432
Decigramme in Gard Chron is said to be 1.543
[100v]
[George's calculations not transcribed]
To Mama |
Could you send a large fruit tart. I should rather like 12 napkins, I'll see that they are brought back safe.─
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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