RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877].11.01-03. Marchantia / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.4.250. (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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Nov 1'

Marchontia

Dark Horizontal glass

9° am

10°. 15'

10. 52— from light

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11 30' to light & right

12. 8 same spot

12. 42 to light

1. 36 to light & right.

2. 24 to light & left

2. 55 back & to right

3. 30' do & near to up line

4" 0 to left & cross old line ( very inaccurate. pinhead too large)

4. 35 Back— I am inclined to think mostly errors of observation    Used

5. 15 far from light is it trustworthy ??

7. 20' far from light (the crest of the Plant must be rising)

8. 25 on very edge of glass

9° 15' quit off glass

Nov 2d 9° a. m going on rising— filament now very highly inclined

— 11° 10' put drop of water & gum

  11. 48 beginning to fall — fell a little; then rose instead, & about 9 in evening rose greatly. Horizontal. — Cd gum have injure leaf Nov. 3d still higher

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Nov 2d   a new leaf with putty wafer & glass filament—   in light vertical glass

9° 8'.

— 26 new dot for point had sunk( perhaps wafer yielded to weight)

10. 30' ' to right, but as I moved Pot better start from this dot

11. 10 . to right ( this implies, I think that disc is turning to left

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11 . 27   to left & back.

11. 50   same spot (12°. 18' do)

            8. 33 far down.

12. 35 a little to left & down  9. 40 little lower

1. 3 down almost on old line  10 . 30 same spot

1. 44   down   

2. 24 down & to left   Nov. 3. 8° a little lower

2. 57 a very little but vertically down           

3. 34 a good way down & to left

4. 45 to left    

5 26 same course to left—     

4. 8. far down 

6° — a trifle down.    

6. 38 still further down          

Nov 2'

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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 54.]


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