RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].09.08-09. Trifolium repens / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.40. (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 11.2022. 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, p. 7.


[40]

8th 6° 43

Sept— 8° 5 down & to left

9 5 up

  10. 7 down

  12 down

  3. 5 far down (withered)

4° almost same spot

5 down

5. 55 up

7°. 15 down

Used

 

9° do

10' 55' do

9° 6. 40 moved pot much closer (for below glass)

8° 20 down

33° from perpendicular

90[-] 33[=] 57°

below Horizon

[40v]

*Note. p. 12

Kölreuter, Mém. de l' acad. de St. Petersburg. Tom III: 1809, (published 1811) p. 197. After showing how well the Malvacaæ are adapted for cross-fertilisation, he asks

Herbert, "Amaryllidaceæ with a treatise on cross-bred Vegetables, 1837."


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