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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.05.28-30. Sida Coronifolia / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 603. CUL-DAR209.14.117. (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-DAR209.14 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 349.

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Sida May 1878

28th

9° 5' ⨀ May 28th to 30th

10 30

12. 30

2°

3 — nearly same spot

4°

5. 15

5 55 began to rise

8. 15

9. 23

10. 50 did rise nearly so high as last night too cold?

6 40 Wednesday 29th

8.°

9. 5 Cold day

9. 55

11° below where started yesterday

1° lower than yesterday

2. 5

3 risend a little

4 crossed over to left

5 almost same spot

6. 5 risen

6. 55 to right

9°—10°. 50 6°. 45' a.m

} 30th

8. 30' a.m

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Chapter D. 9

The great grandchildren of Hero derived from a cross with a fresh stock were so unhealthy, from having been grown at an unfavourable season, that their ~~relation~~ heights in comparison with the self-fertilised plants could not be judged of with any safety; but it did not appear that ~~even those plants~~ they had profited ~~which were derived from a cross with a fresh stock)~~ even by a cross if this kind.) were ~~first~~ experimented on by me [text excised]

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)