RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1877.11.20-21. Lathyrus nissolia / Draft of Descent, vol. 1. CUL-DAR209.4.198. (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).

Draft of Descent in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin.


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Nov 20th Lathyrus nissolia Darkness Horizontal glass

8°. 45'

9. 30 greatly to left    (1.2 above ground)

10. 30

11. 35

12 . 5

12 27 far to left

1 10

1. . 10   ⊡        13 7/8 to mark

1. 55    p 38    ⨀—   ⨀

2. 30

3. 5

3 55 gone back at last

4. 44 still more

5 35— I am not sure that I did not observe wrong plant

7. 15'   gone back — this is correct

8 43

9. 25

10 20'

Nov 21 6° 45 ⨀           11. 30  3. 55    10. 35

8. 30'   12. 30 ?           4. 50   

9. 20'   1. 30    6. 30    7° a.m 22d

10. 20  2' 25 gone back           7. 30    8°

            3. 10 same course       8. 35   

                        9. 45   

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(He who will carefully read Mr. Tylor's & Sir J. Lubbock's interesting works*23 (23) can hardly fail to be deeply impressed with the close similarity in mental tastes, disparities & habits of the men of all races. This is shown, for instance, by the pleasure which they all take in dancing, rude music, acting, painting, tattooing & otherwise decorating themselves, ─ in their mutual

[Descent 1: 232: "He who will carefully read Mr. Tylor's and Sir J. Lubbock's interesting works23 can hardly fail to be deeply impressed with the close similarity between the men of all races in tastes, dispositions and habits. This is shewn by the pleasure which they all take in dancing, rude music, acting, painting, tattooing, and otherwise decorating themselves,—in their mutual comprehension of gesture-language—and, as I shall be able to shew in a future essay, by the same expression in their features, and by the same inarticulate cries, when they are excited by various emotions."]


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