RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.03.16-17. Vegetable marrow / Orange / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.11.40. 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. 39.
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March 16th 1878. Apogeotropism.
Vegetable marrow end of [sketch] long shoot— pot laid on side. so nearly Horizontal— dark room
Orange with 3 leaves
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(21) The fourteen crossed plants averaged in height 81.39 inches; and the fourteen self-fertilised plants 64.07, or as 100 to 7+. One self0fertilised plant in Pot III exceeded, and one in Pot IV equalled in height its opponent. The self fertilised plants showed
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