RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. 1878.07.02-04. Sarracenia purpurea / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.295. (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 12.2022. 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-DAR209.3 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 419.
[295]
Sarracenia purpurea
July 2d
6° 40'
8° up & to left
9' down & to right
10 to left
11 a little down
12. do. do
1° a little down & to left
2 an atom down
3° an atom up down
4° a little down
5 up (but this leaf was freed from other leaf 1° ago)
6 almost same spot little to right
7. 15 atom down
8° 50 up & to right
10. 35 back & to left
3d 6 48 8° gone back & up
8' 12 new dot more magnified
9° down & to right
10. 5 to right & little up
11. 5 do do
12 . down
1° up & to left
2° down on old line
3 8 up
4°· to right & down (dot on angle
see sketch
5 . 15 up ·
6 . 12 not marked
7 . 15 to left.
8 . 50 nearly same spot
8° 50 good way to left
10 . 40 risen greatly
4th 6° 45
8· 30' to right & down
10 . 15 to right
[296]
[Others fragments of this are at CUL-DAR209.3.289 and CUL-DAR209.3.289.317-319]
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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