RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.08-09. Eucalyptus resinifera / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation,folio 617. CUL-DAR209.3.192-193. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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 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. 358.
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Eucalyptus
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Same scale: no lettering: the 2 figures on same block close together, a little nearer than here.
Eucalyptus resinifera: circumnutation of [illeg] leaf traced on horizontal glass: A from 640 a.m June 8th to 1˚ P.m from 8th, & B from 1˚P.m 8th to 830 a.m Jun 9th.
apex of leaf 14 1/2 inches from horizontal glass, so tracing considerably magnified.
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Chap. E 10
number of seeds compared with those in capsules from flowers naturally fertilised by bees.
Eschscholtzia californica (Papaveraceæ) Brazilian plants quite sterile: English plants produced a very few capsules.
Papaver vagum (do) in the early part of the summer produced very few capsules, and these contained very few seeds.
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