RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1879].09.14-16. Mimosa pudica Fig 500. CUL-DAR209.10.55-56. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR209.10 contains notes on sleep (Leguminosae) for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Fig 500 Sleep Chapter

[data not transcribed] 1/2 scale 7 sets of Lettering

(Fig say 500)

Circumnutation & sleep movement of single leaflet of Mimosa pudica, traced on vertical glass (for 49 hr) from 8° a.m Sept 14th to 9° am on 16th—

Petioles firmly secured.— temp 62°—64°


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