The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. [ny].10.20-21. Nankin cotton. CUL-DAR209.4.281. 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 for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

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Oct 20 Nankin Cotton seedling, 37mm How high 1.45 inches of stalk above ground observation made on horizontal sheet of glass a glass fibre attached to stem & a paper mark below. Magnifying power about 2

Plant stood in one of the hot-houses (almost certainly the first) with a sheet of brown paper between the plant & the front lights of the green house.

The dots are numbered 1, 2, 3, because no room to put in the actual times

1 — Oct 20 about 10.30 AM

2 ------- about 12

3 — 1.37 – PM

4 — 2.50 —

5 — 4.20 —

6 — 5.15 —

7 — 10.40 —

Oct 21

8 — 8.40 AM

9 ------ 11.25

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)