RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. [1877].11.03. Avena. CUL-DAR209.4.40. 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).


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Oat say at 1/4 not high Nov 3

Very young few mm high horizontal glass fibre gummed & paper mark about 300 mm from glass & 5 from fibre tip. ∴ 60-70 - Xn double Brown paper cylinder round pot resting on & covered by other sheets blocks each side & a cloth hung over light side: stand on N. table hot house.

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* I could hardly see 5 nearly or quite off glass

(I do not know whether worth working in)

in [illeg] small Fig of 8 & 2 ellipses in 5 1/2 hours

[Sheet of paper pasted on:] Oat Nov 3

Horizontal glass & pin head below x about 60-times

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It was perhaps, hardly worth while, to make any further observation on the [circumnutation] of their [illeg] ; but a A filament was next fixed to a cotyledon, only abou 1/4 of inch in height, when was illuminated excessivelyfrom above & sun Su by Kept in, was quick wa to the N growing grow rapidly; [illeg] there cd be no doubt close its [illeg], for it This cotyledon described a figure of 8 & 2 small ellipses in 5 1/2 hours.—)


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