RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.07.22-29. Trifolium subterraneum / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 48. CUL-DAR209.11.245-246. 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, p. 29.
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We thus see that The average height of the six crossed plants was at the times of measurement is her 86 inches: whilst that of the six self-fertilised plants was is only 65.66 inches, so that the crossed plants are to the self-fertilised in height as 100 to 76. It should be observed that this difference is not due to a few of the crossed plants being
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