RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877].09.18-20. Trifolium resupinatum / Proof sheet: Forms of Flowers, p. 4. CUL-DAR209.1.139. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2022. 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-DAR209.1 contains materials on circumnutation of leaves and sleep for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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Trifolium resupinatum — terminal leaflet at to light plant in same position for some time
Sept 18' = 11° 45
12° 5'
12° 42'
2. 15'
2 50'
3 55
4°. 30'
5° — leaf had upper corner going to sleep & little rising
19th 1 7° 45'
2 8°. 30'
3 9° 30'
4 10 15 bent to right
5 10. 35'}
6 10 50} no change in light
7 11° 10' almost vertically down
8 11 30 — turning up again— no change in light
9 11 50
10 12 10' no change in light — Hazy day
11 12. 45'
12 1°. 25' — highest point?
13 2 20 at s downwards
14 2 44
15 3°
16 16 3. 55° going down
4° 45 beyond glass — leaves turning laterally for sleep
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20th (1) 7° 50'
2 8° 10'}
3 8 40'}
4 9. 30'}
5 10. 20'}
6 11° 20'} uniformly Cloudy
7 11' 50 a little to right-hand
8 12. 35. horizontal
9 1°
10 1° 20'
11 (1 50' 2 30) same spot
12 2 50 bent towards light
13 3° 5'
14 3°. 30' crossed the old line
15 4°
4° 30 beyond glass leaflet upturned
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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 4, (published, p. 7)]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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