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Nov. 2d

Veg marrow Dark Horizontal glass [sketch]

8°. 23'

8. 50   to right & light

9. 21   straight to light (recovering former heliotropism?

10. to right & light

10. 20' from light & to right

11. 4' to left— horizontal

11. 24   same course. somewhat from light

11. 47—    do.   do

12. 16   back to right & parallel               chief line of

—   12. 37 from light & to right               nutation oblique to

1° 1   same course    the 2 Cots

1. 43   far to right & from light

2. 22   to left & back

2. 55.   do— horizontal

3. 33   a little to light & to left

4. 6  direct to light      Used

4. 45 to right & from light

5 25 from light & little to right.

5. 58 little to right

6. 37 — gone back to light    [unlabeled diagram]

7 .28 from light & to left

8. 30' far from light     (The Cots have hardly open

all day. They embrace

9. 39 off glass. little way        each other in alternate position)

10. 25 still more off glass   They are folded together

not directly opposite

 

 

Nov 3' 8° 45 tip to tip of mid-rib

⨀   ⨀

⨀ — 12. 30' — ⨀

⨀ — 4. 30' — ⨀

⨀ — 7 P.m — ⨀

Magnified 17.7 times

How much magnified

⨀   10. P.m   ⨀

⨀   7. a.m —   ⨀

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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 57.]

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Vertical glass Marrow axis secured in Light [sketch]

Movement of Cotyledon

Nov. 5.—

8°. 5'

9. 15' down       Movement of Cotyledon

10. 8.   right down

10. 47   do.

11. 30'   do

12. 13   do

1° 0   .do

2 —0   do

2. 45 little down & trifle to right

3' a trifle lower

{

3. 38   rising

4' — same spot

4. 30 a very little rise

5 20   do.

6 rather more up.

7. 15 do.

9 still rising very slowly — not in exactly same line, as descending line

10. ,48 a vie little bit up

6th 6° 55' ⊡ lower [sketch] after banking up spec.

  8. 5' falling

  8. 50 down

  9 .14 down

(Used)

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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 56.]

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Nov 6th Marrow

9° 21 a.m

10.  ;  down

10. 48 more down

11. 50   do

}

12. 20   down

1°    do

2° — much fallen

3°.— do

4'   an atom up

4° 35 an atom up

but I see whole stem has bent to light so fairly Heliotropic bank up stem

5°   to right

6° atom of rise

7. 15 up

8 35 up (red)

9. 15 a trifle higher

10. 30. risen.

Nov. 7'   7° A.m   ⨀ red

  8. 15' same spot 8. 40' do

(Used)

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part is shown by the many cases in which negros, after having resided for some time in a colder climate, have become to a certain extent liable to tropical fevers. 47 (46) Residence in a cooler climate likewise affects the white races; for during the fearful epidemic of yellow-fever in Demarara during 1837 Dr Blair found that the death-rate of the immigrant was proportional to the latitude of the country whence they had come. With the negro the immunity as far as it is th

[Descent 1: 243-44: "That acclimatisation plays a part is shewn by the many cases in which negroes, after having resided for some time in a colder climate, have become to a certain extent liable to tropical fevers.47 The nature of the climate under which the white races have long resided, likewise has some influence on them; for during the fearful epidemic of yellow-fever in Demerara during 1837, Dr. Blair found that the death-rate of the immigrants was proportional
47 Quatrefages, 'Unité de l'Espèce Humaine,' 1861, p. 205. Waitz, 'Introduct. to Anthropology,' translat. vol. i. 1863, p. 124. Livingstone gives analogous cases in his 'Travels.'
to the latitude of the country whence they had come. With the negro the immunity, as far as it is the result of acclimatisation, implies exposure during a prodigious length of time; for the aborigines of tropical America, who have resided there from time immemorial, are not exempt from yellow-fever; and the Rev. B. Tristram states, that there are districts in Northern Africa which the native inhabitants are compelled annually to leave, though the negroes can remain with safety."]