RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1881.01.07. Draft letter to A. R. Wallace / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR202.98. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN1
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Draft of Cross and self fertilisation in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin.
"Norman, Ebenezer, 1835/6-1923. 1854- Schoolmaster at Down and from 1856 and many years thereafter copyist for CD. 1856 Aug. 17 First payment for copying in CD's Account book (Down House MS). Many thereafter. CCD6:444. 1857 CD to Hooker, "I am employing a laboriously careful Schoolmaster". CCD6:443. 1858 CD to Hooker, "I can get the Down schoolmaster to do it [i.e. transcribe] on my return". CCD7:130. 1871 Banker's clerk in Deptford." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
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at least as far as the colour of the flower
concerned, also appeared amongst the crossed
of the third generation. No attention was
paid to this variety it, and I know not how
was at first used either for crossing and for or self-
In the fifth generation, most of the self-fert
plants, and in the sixth and all the succeeding
=ations, every single self-fertilised plants con
it; this variety it; and this no doubt was partly
the its great and increasing self-fertility. of this on
[Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 79-80: "A similar variety, at least in the colour of its flowers, also appeared amongst the crossed plants of the third generation. No attention was at first paid to it, and I know not how far it was at first used either for crossing or self-fertilisation. In the fifth generation most of the self-fertilised plants, and in the sixth and all the succeeding generations every single plant consisted of this variety; and this no doubt was partly due to its great and increasing self-fertility."]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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