RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].02.25. Hedera helix / Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.4.157-159. (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 9.2022. 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-DAR209.4 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Hedera helix

Feb 25th

8 am 26'

8 am Feb. 26th

6° 50' Feb 25 Ivy

8°. a. m Feb. 25 Cots

31°

7 °

90°

V

90 [-] 15 [=] 75

90 [-] 39 [=] 51

7 [÷] 2 [=] 39

 

Feb 25th

Hedera Helix

bead to mark at corner .35 of inch.

do at close gone very little

[sketch]

A

about 2d days growth

8°. 25'

8. 55 from light & to left

9 43   back & to right

10°   57 same course very short distance

(1) 11°.— first dot more magnified distance 12.1 inches.

(2) 11° 50 to right & from light —(nearly same course) as before dot

(3) 1° 3 gone back or to left    (Cots well open 1° a little above horizontal)

(4) 2 15 to right back again

(5) 3°    to left back again

(6) 4'   — back again to right & nearer light

(7) 5°   a little back to left (movement in line joining the 2 cotyledons) cots now closing a little.)

(8) 5° 54 from light— first direction.

(9) 7 ,20 back to light short way

(10) 8. 30   light & left

(11) 9. 27   to light & right

12 10. 25.   nearly same spot— Cots less than ∠

  6°. 55' ⨀— Cots very much closed

(magnified (34.5 say 35 times)

12.1 [÷] .35 [=] 34.5

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1st proof

Slips 17-20

[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 32]

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Tracing [figure]

Ivy 10° P.m Feb 24th

Angle of 2 Cots

Ivy 10° P.m Feb 24th

During day nearly 180°

3°. 5' Feb 24th & 4°. P.m same

40°

47°

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[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 37]

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[Figure]

(1)

1 (2)

2

(3)

3

(4)

4

(5)

5

(6)

6

(7)

7 —5° Pm

(8)

8

(9)

9

10 (10)

(11)

11   9° 27

 

}

1 to left 1

1 right 1

1 left

1— right

1 left

parallel to Cots           one at right angle & far & then 1 right & left again

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[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 26]


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