RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.04.0. Red Cabbage Hypocotyls directed from below Horizon owing to yesterdays geotropism / Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p.80, published p. 160. CUL-DAR209.11.27. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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).
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Ap 5. Red Cabbage — Hypocotyls directed from below Horizon owing to yesterdays geotropism
Left Hand Plant |
Right Hand same seedlings as yesterday |
8º 10' |
8º 10' |
9' risen |
9' risen |
10 do |
10º do |
10. 20' straight |
10. 30' to left & up |
11' risen |
11º do risen |
11' 30 do |
11º 30' do |
12º — very highly inclined. Horizon |
12 has been tremendously much to left candle ?? |
12º 50 |
12º. 50 so oblique cannot see well |
X 1. 30 fallen a bit |
1' 30 tremendously oblique |
2. 10 do more |
2º 10' fallen considerably X |
3 almost completed ellipse |
3º almost completed ellipse |
4 a little further down |
4' down dot on old up line |
5 to left |
5 to left & down |
6 up & to left |
6 up & to left |
7' 23. little circle completed |
7' 23 little circle completed |
9' 10 |
9. 10 |
10. 15 |
10. 15 |
6. 45 ⨀ |
6. 45 ⨀ |
8º |
8º |
9. 20 |
9. 20 |
Right side of Pot.
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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