RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Short-sight due to use or looking close / Draft of Insectivorous plants. CUL-DAR193.68. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. 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 volume CUL-DAR193 contains notes for Darwin's book Variation under domestication (1865-75).
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4to (122) Short-sight due to use or looking Close (used vol. 2 p. 9)
[Variation 2d ed. 2: 208: "Short-sight, which is often inherited, permits a person to see distinctly a minute object at so near a distance that it would be indistinct to ordinary eyes; and here we have a capacity which might be serviceable under certain conditions, abruptly gained."]
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another leaf after an immersion of 15
signs of inflection so was brushed & after 4m was grandly inflected
A thread leaf after an immersion of 17m likewise.
[Insectivorous plants, p. 211: "Another leaf, after an immersion of 15 m., showed no signs of inflection, so was brushed, and in 4 m. was grandly inflected. A third leaf, after an immersion of 17 m., likewise showed no signs of inflection; it was then brushed, but did not move for 1 hr.; so that here was a failure."]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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