RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. [1878].11.18-25. Horse-chestnut / Spanish chestnut. CUL-DAR209.5.112-113. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR209.5 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Horse chestnuts slicing

Nov 18 10° to 11' am

Nine sliced and fixed up, so that roots dip in but not the seed; on study chimney piece under loose brown paper cups: Temperature of water 15-16C

Nov 19. 10.36 am

2 bent with no relation to cuts

1 towards

1 slightly away

The rest not bent at all

Nov 20 & 21st No changes except one root bent away from cut, bending place close to seed

Observed till Nov 21st, some slight bendings occurred but only 2 showed clear bending away from cut near the tip.

2/9 in 3 days

Nov 25th Fixed up & sliced 2 Horsechestnuts

 2 2 0 3 [=] 7

9 4 4 5 [=] 22

11. 40 am.

Nov 27

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Spanish Chestnut Nov 23 11 am

Spanish Chestnuts I & II; one fixed 11.35 am Nov 19 one Nov 22 12 noon — both fairly vertical now now Sliced with razor— dip in H2O seeds dry

Nov 24 — no bending visible

Nov 25 11 50 am

one bent slightly towards cut at tip, the other— bent to side marked as cut but on which I can see no cut— Nov 28, I can cut mark & the root is bent slightly away from the cut side.

Spanish-Chesnuts I think go for nothing— They always grow so badly


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