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     

  10º 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  4º 

  5º 25'    moved pot      Beginning of Tracing

  7·20    still horizontally to left

  9º      down & to left  Used

  10. 30' vertically down

6th 7 the 6º. 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

   4º    same courses

   5º     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

  10º. 40'

   11º   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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