RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Of the Kidney Beans covered up 74 stalks had Beans. CUL-DAR157a.88. 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.
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of the Kidney Beans covered up 74 stalk had Beans (seed omitting few pods under 1 1/2 inch long) & these bore 97 Beans pods.
2nd Experiment
These pods bore 261 Beans. But in these numbers 4 pods flowers or 4 stalks which had been moved are counted. These 4 stalks bore 8 pods: & the 4 pods of the moved flowers bore 14 Beans.—
[calculations not transcribed] (1.31 average pods to each stalk
pods 97) [calculations not transcribed] (2.69 average beans to pods.
4 stalks of which one flower had been moved bore on average 2.00 pods. & each pod had on average
[calculations not transcribed] (3.50 beans
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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