RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].07.31-08.01. Pinus austriaca / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.272. 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, pp. 427-8.
[272]
Pinus Austriaca (branch not tied
July 31'
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[The excised left side of this page is at CUL-DAR.209.3.275-276.]
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along side of each other were had
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