RECORD: Darwin, C. R. Verbena chamaedrys / Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.314. (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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Verbena chamaedrys (continued)

Jun 5th     

  10° 15'  new dot more magnified.—   

    immense way to left  12  var. Nelumbridgii

  12 53   I  believe bit down  Scarlet Herbaceous

    up  2  8  & to right

  3' far to left & up, but too oblique for accuracy

  to left too oblique for vision  4° 

  5° 25'    moved pot      Beginning of Tracing

  7·20    still horizontally to left

  9°      down & to left  Used

  10. 30' vertically down

6th 7 the 6°. 50

  8.   back to right      Measure distance of   Mark  9. 25    same course  & Bead

  10. 23   gone back to left

  11. 18      back to right

  12. 30'    a little down.

   1. 37        to left & up.

   2. 13   up & to right

   2 . 53   to right

   4°    same courses

   5°     back on old line to l.

   6     to left    [diagram]

   7. 15     up & to right

   8. 30   to right & up

   9. 45     to left & up

   10. 40     far to left

rising from growth & circumnutating N. B. as Movement at right angles wd not be visible or hardly so

 June 7the

  6. 55   far to left

  9. 20    to right

  10°. 40'

   11°   same spot

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[proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation]

 


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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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