RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.02.05-07. Cabbage / Draft of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.4.89. (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).


[89]

Feb 5 Cabbage — Arch — Compacted earth

Left, further dot, further plant

Right, nearer dot. nearer plant

 

8º 35

8.º 35

 

9. 47 an atom to right

9. 47' far to light & little to right

 

10 45

10. 45

 

10. 55º new dot→ turned pot at nearly right-angle to former position

10. 55º new dot — (say 11º)

 

11. 55 to the right

11. 55 to the right

 

1º   to   do

1º to light fr do left

 

do  2º

 2º Do right

 

3'   gone far back to left could this have been my mistake

3º   to right & from light

 

3' to right & from light

3º gone back to left enormously??

 

4 far to right

4   to light & left

 

5. 15 do almost off glass

5. 15   to left

 

 

from light 6º

 

Feby 6th 8 a.m come back!

7. 18 from light & to left

 

9º little from light

8 35 same course

 

10' 5 left & from light   (Used)

do  9 . 25

 

11. 9 to light & right

do almost out of sight  10. 45

 

12. 10 little to left & light

Feb 6th 6º. 50' to right

 

1º same spot

—8º from light & to left

 

2. 5 same course as before

9' too light short distance

 

3. 5 to the right (but too small movement to be trusted)

10º. 5' to right, parallel to old line

 

   

11º 10 a little to left

 

4º to left & light

12. 10' from light & to left, back & parallel to old line

 

5 from light

1º from light & little to right

 

6 from light

same course 2 . 5—

 

7º 15 Cot. broken loose

3: 5 from light & to left

 

8º 30 + about position of dot filament parallel to stem

4. to light & right

 

9 30 to left & light

5 to right

 

10 40 from light

6 gone back a little on same old line

 


7. 17' to left & from light
8 30 same course
9. 30 to light & left
10.40 from light & to left

Feb 7th.

 

}

6º.48

a.m.


Chief movement transverse to arc

(Used)

Feb. 7th 6˚45 8'} a.m. Plant now with upper part of Hypo-cot stem still arched, but Cots. fell.

[89v]

in table 6 7, we see that the former composed with the latter yielded capsules, whether containing many seeds or only a very few, in the proportion of 77 to 45, or as 100 to 58. But infinity of the two illegitimate unions is here probably perhaps too great, for on a subsequent occasion no less than 100 long-styled & short-styled flowers were illegitimately fertilised & they yielded 53 capsules: therefore the ration of 77 to 53, or as 100 to 69, could be a fairer one than that of 100 to 58. Returning to table 7, if we consider only the good capsules, those from the two legitimate unions were to those from the two illegitimate [text excised]

[Forms of flowers, pp. 26-7: "If we consider the results of the two legitimate unions taken together and the two illegitimate ones, as shown in Table 7, we see that the former compared with the latter yielded capsules, whether containing many seeds or only a few, in the proportion of 77 to 45, or as 100 to 58. But the inferiority of the illegitimate unions is here perhaps too great, for on a subsequent occasion 100 long-styled and short-styled flowers were illegitimately fertilised, and they together yielded 53 capsules: therefore the rate of 77 to 53, or as 100 to 69, is a fairer one than that of 100 to 58.
Returning to Table 7, if we consider only the good capsules, those from the two legitimate unions were to those from the two illegitimate in number as 71 to 31, or as 100 to 44."]


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