RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870]-[1878].09.28-29. Hypocotyl of Beet / Drafts of Cross and self fertilisation & Descent vol. 2 (fragment). CUL-DAR209.11.15. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. 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. The volume CUL-DAR209.11 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). Draft in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 46-7.


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In sixteen out of these nineteen pairs, the Colchester-crossed plants exceeded in height its intercrossed opponents. The average height of the Colchester-crossed is 84.03 inches, and of that of the intercrossed 65.78, or as 100 to 78. With respect to the fertility of the two lots, it was too troublesome to collect and count the capsules on all the plants; so I selected two of the best pots, V and VI, and found that in these the Colchester-crossed had produced 269 mature and half-mature capsules, [text excised] an equal [text excised]

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times that the greater struggle of the man could have been much affected was primarily acquired during early at an period time that the inherited effects of [illeg] his having worked harder by his working harder for his subsistence than women; for the women of in all barbarous nations with all barbarians that women are compelled to work at least as hard as the men. M With civilised nations people the arbitration arbitration of battle for the possession of the women has ceased; on the other


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