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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.09.11-12. Red Cabbage / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, (fragment). CUL-DAR209.11.31. 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. 6. The left portion of the draft is in CUL-DAR209.11.12.

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Red Cabbage.— on Horizontal glass apogeotropism in darkness, & when marked— illuminate only from directly above — Angle Etiolated

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given an interesting sum=

ject in his "British Wild

lation to Insects' 1875."

'Die Befruchtung der

' 1873 contains an immense

vations and generalisations. ~~and~~ It

ry, with references to almost

n published on the subject.

all others in specifying

kinds of insects visit the

He likewise enters on new

only that flowers are adapted

the visits of certain insects;

selves are excellently adapted

llen from certain flowers. The

can hardly be over-estimated, & it

should be translated into English.

written in Swedish, so that I

read it.

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