RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. [1878?].07.02-05. Vicia faba / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.317-319. (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).
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 419, 382, 412-3, respectively.
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Bean
July 2d
6º 40' am Temp 18º C
8 to right (shaken)
9 to left & up
10 up & to right
11 down
12 to right & down same course
1º down
2 do
3º down & to left
4º up & to right ‒ back parallel
5 & do — do
6º far up & to right .
7 . 15 . do . do
8 50 far up or same course
10. 35. do do guess
almost asleep
3d 6º 48
8. 12 down
9 almost same spot
10. 4 to right & little up
11. 5 same course down.
12º to left
1º up on old line
2º up do
3 8 down & to left
4 4 vertically down
5. 19 . up
6. 12 up high
7. 15 greatly up near Frame
8. 50 above glass
4th 6º 45' ⨀
8 .30' down
10. 15 down
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[Other fragments of this are at CUL-DAR209.3.289 and 295.]
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Bean [sketches]
July 3
46 ½
46 ½
90 [-] 33 [=] 57
90 [-] 46 ½ [=] 43 ½
90 [-] 36 [=] 54
July 3
12º. 20' 43º 30 — Petiole & leaflet above Horizon
7. 20 57º above Horizon
9h 54º above Horizon
10 . 45 62º. 30' above Horizon
P.m
62. 30 [-] 43 30 [=] 19 0
July 4th 10º 20' 39º above Horizon
90 [-] 27 ½ [=] 62 ½
62. 30 [-] 39 [=] 23. 30
90 [-] 51 [=] 39
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have been acquired by a species before those which prevent self-fertilisation; as it would manifestly be injurious to a plant that its stigma should fail to receive its own pollen, unless it had already become well adapted for receiving pollen from another individual. Some It should also be observed that many plants still possess a high power of self-fertilisation, although their flowers are excellently constructed for cross-fertilisation; for instance, those of many papilionaceous species.
It may be admitted as almost certain that some structures, such as a narrow elongated nectary, or a long tubular corolla, have been developed in
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July 4' Bean Leaflet (same) petiole secured close behind it
Distance of tip from glass } 6 5/8
11. 12 down & to right
11 30 same course
12. down & to right
12. 45 risen considerably
1. 27 same course
2. 12 up & much to right
3. 3 up
3. 30 do
4º a little down
4º 30 same spot
5 an atom risen
5. 26' up a little & to left
6º up & to right
6º 30 considerably up.
7. 15 up.
8 up
8. 50 up & to left
9. 30 little to right
10 . up & to right
10. 35 to right & little do
Length of Leaf 3.1 to end of leaflet
of Leaflet 1.4
5th 6º 45
8. 30 down
9. 15 to left
9 40 down
10. 5 do.
10. 50 right
5th cont—
11º 5 down
11. 50 to left
12. 36 down & to right
1º to right
1. 25 up & to left
2 to right
2. 36 up
3º down & to left
3. 30 up & to right
4º 5 well up.
4. 30 up
5 . 15 do
6 . 30' up.
7º. 12. up
8. 25 same course
9.15 still up
10. 15 down little
6th 6º 25'
̅̅8º 45'
10. 30 to right
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was a tree bearing numerous hermaphrodite flowers would rarely intercross with another tree unless pollen from a distinct individual were was prepotent over the plants own pollen. Now the separation of the sexes, whether the plant be were anemophilous are entomophilous, would most effectually bar the inter-crossing self-fertilisation, and this may be the cause of so many trees and bushes being diclinous. Or to put the case in another way, a plant would be better fitted for development into a tree, if the sexes were separated, than if it were hermaphrodite; for in the former
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