RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878. Pinus pinaster. CUL-DAR209.3.17-18. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: 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-DAR209.3 contains materials on Circumnutation of leaves and hyponasty for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Jun 2d

Pinus 6 inches

6. 45

8 20 fallen

9. 40

10. 30

11. 30 fallen

12. 45

1. 53 short way to right

2. 45 same spot

4° a trace to left & fallen

5 nearly same spot

6 same spot

7° 10 do.

8. 55 to left little do

10. 45.    do

 

June 3d

6° 45 still fallen

8° 50 down

9. 55 down

11.    do

12. 5    do

1' 5 little down

same spot a little up ?

3° same spot

5. 50 do

6° an atom up— I suspect moves

Distance of apex of leaf fr glass

10½ inches so considerably magnified

17v

[proof sheet of Forms of flowers]

18

Pinus

4th

Temp

6° 50'

8. 25 down

 

8° 25 (put pot ?further off ? 

10. 15 down & to left

11 25 to left & down

1°    do.

2° to right & little down

3 down & to left

4° up & to left

5 10' down

6. 5 to right & little up

8. 20 to left & up

Plant 3 inches high leaf barely 1 inch long

Jun 5' 6° 40 down

8°. 50' down & to left

10. 9 to right & down

11. down & little to left

11. 50 to right

12 55 down to left

2. 5 straight down

3 same spot

4 only an atom

6. down

7. 15 vertically down

9 almost same spot

10 40 a little to left & down.

 

Jun 6 6° 40 dot by itself

8' down a little

9  20 down a little

10. 15 same spot

11. 12' moved very little

12. 35 an atom

18v

[proof sheet of Forms of flowers]

 


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