RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].07.10-.07.15. Ampelopsis / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.3-4. (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 8.2022. 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 on Circumnutation of leaves and hyponasty 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. 409-10 and 422-3, respectively.


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Ampelopsis

July 10 [sketch]

glass

July 10º 8º 50'

10º up

11 37 down

1º far down

2º do

3 far down (This shows tip bending down

4º so far down hardly visible

5 do out of sight

6º has risen

7º. 15' fallen much (but I doubt observation

9º too low to see — not marked

10º 40 far to left & little up

11th. 6º. 35' too far down to see

  o o o

  9. 0' o

11th 12º ↑ put filament transversely apex quite hooked short

[sketch]

Used

1º little up & to right

2º down

3 considerably down— (must be slewing) ie turning laterally

4º down

5º 10 to right

6. 12 up & to right

7. 15 to right & up

9. 24 to left ? up

10. 50 to right

 

12th 6. 35 far up— still Hooked

8º 3 down & to left

9. 5 same course— growing rapidly, but beneath hooked part.

10 5 up & to left

11. 10 nearly same course

11 55 same course

1º little down

2. down

3 little to left

4º up & to right

6. 5 to right

6º down & to right

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Chap.

in mind that a greater

ferentiation between the

be traced, thus leading

of the two sexual form

as plants became more

affixed to the ground,

be at first anemophilous

fore all plants which h

modified, would tend to

-philous; and we can thu

between these two state

first-sight quite discour

plants must have beco be

though still very early period, and at a still yet l

namely after the development o

the relationship between

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extent intelligible.

Why the desce

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Left Hand        Right Hand

July 13' 8º 10 a. first dot     13' 8º 10' first

9º. 35' up        9'. 35' down & to left

10. 30 up        10. 30 down & to the left

12 up & to left            12º up & to rt

1. 30 down & to left   1. 30 same course

2. 55 to left     2. 55 up

4º down           4. do

5. 45 to left     5. 45 up

7. 15 up.         7. 15 up.

9 to left & little up      9 up

11. 30 up considerably           10. 30 up

 

Distance of tip 5½ inches

Plant with pin a ft. high

Used

shoots of Smithia now upright

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Ch XI

Pedicularis sylvatica, Polygala vulgaris, Viola tricolor & some species of Trifolium, I have watched the flowers day after day without seeing a bee at work, and then suddenly all the flowers where repeatedly visited by many bees. Now how did so many bees discover at once that the flowers were secreting nectar? I presume that it must have been by their odour, and that as soon as a few bees began to suck the flowers others of the same & of different species observed the fact & profited by it. We shall presently see when we come to the boring of the corolla that bees are fully capable of profiting by the a work performed of others bees. Memory also comes into play for as already remarked bees know the position of each clump of flowers in the garden; thus I have repeatedly seen them parsing round a corner, but otherwise in as straight a line as was possible, from one plant to another a distant one of Fraxinella & of a tall Linaria to another & distant one; although that was not in sight of the other owing to the inter


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