RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.09.19-20. Phalaris / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 88. CUL-DAR209.11.98. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. RN2
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. 48-49.
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Phalaris — Apogeotropm place 40° below Horizon
Sept 19th.
Left Pot
Right Pot
9° 31 first dot
10. 5 first dot 10. 5 — not joined to line
10 .32 10. 32 — Cot Horizontal
11. 5 11. 5
11. 27 11. 27
12. 7 12. 7
12. 35 on Horizontal glass 12. 35'
12. 46 straight to light 12. 46'
1. 10 not corrected yet 1. 10 on Horizontal glass
1. 34 straight 1. 34 straight
X 2. 6 to L & Left 2. 6 to L & Right
2. 32 to Light 2. 32 to Left
3. 5 3. 5
3. 34 3. 34
4. 5 4. 5
4. 33 4. 33
5. 30 to me or from light 5° 30' to me or from Light Could thy have been affected
6° seem quit vertical 6° seem vertical
7. 15 7. 15
8. 53 8. 53
10. 35
Used for Notes 10. 35
(Used)
20' 6° 40' 20' 6° 40
8° 8°
9 9'
10° do not give moving to light for further certain illumntion ← 10°
Horizontal distance from sand to vertical glass 9 2/10
9 1/10
Vertical Distance Left Hand from sand to Horizontal. 10 2/10
11' 2/10 inches
Height of Plant 1.3 Part bent 1.3
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Ipomoea
Here the average height of the three self-fertilised children of Hero is 88.91 inches, whilst that of the intercrossed plants is 84.16; or as 100 to 95. We thus see that the self-fertilised children of Hero certainly inherit the powers of growth of their parents; for they greatly exceeded in height the self-fertilised offspring of the other self-fertilised plants, of the same generation, and even exceeded by a trifle the intercrossed plants, all of the corresponding generation.
Several flowers on the self-fertilised children of Hero in Table 14, were fertilised with pollen from the same flower; and from the seeds thus produced self-fertilised plants of the eighth generation (grandchildren of Hero) were raised. Several other flowers on the same plants were crossed with pollen from the other children of Hero. The seedlings raised from this cross may be considered (if we look at all the flowers on the same plant as forming a single individual as the offspring of the union of brothers and sisters. The result of the competition between these
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