RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Leonard Darwin. 1877.10.19. Lupinus luteus / Draft of Descent, vol. 1. CUL-DAR209.4.226. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2022. 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-DAR209.4 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

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

"Norman, Ebenezer, 1835/6-1923. 1854- Schoolmaster at Down and from 1856 and many years thereafter copyist for CD. 1856 Aug. 17 First payment for copying in CD's Account book (Down House MS). Many thereafter. CCD6:444. 1857 CD to Hooker, "I am employing a laboriously careful Schoolmaster". CCD6:443. 1858 CD to Hooker, "I can get the Down schoolmaster to do it [i.e. transcribe] on my return". CCD7:130. 1871 Banker's clerk in Deptford." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)


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Oct 19' Lupinus luteus

Lupinus luteus

magnified 100 times what rate per hour

Used

[calculations not transcribed]

apparent movement

true movement

diagram H

true distance

between points 5.20 and 8.40

If movement had been in one direction clearly not trustworthy

Leonard

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Chap. 8

With reference to the other orders of insects, I have been able to collect very little reliable information. With the stag-beetle (Lucanus cervus) "the males appear to be much more numerous than the females;" but when, as Cornelius remarked on the occasion of during 1867, an unusual number of these beetles appearinged in one part of Germany in 1867, that, the females appeared to exceed the males as six to one. With one of the Elateriæ, the males are said to be much more numerous than the females and "two or three are often found united with one female; 66*(BB) so that here holuandry seems to be practised prevail. With Siage=

[Descent 1: 313-14: "With reference to the other Orders of insects, I have been able to collect very little reliable information. With the stag-beetle (Lucanus cervus) "the males appear to be much more numerous than the females;" but when, as Cornelius remarked during 1867, an unusual number of these beetles appeared in one part of Germany, the females appeared to exceed the males as six so one. With one of the Elateridæ, the males are said to be much more numerous than the females, and "two or three are often found united with one female;66 so that here polyandry seems to prevail-
With Siagonium (Staphylinidæ), in which the males are furnished with horns, the females are far more numerous than the opposite sex."]


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