RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. [1878].07.02-06. Maize / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.5.208-210. (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 5.2023. 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-DAR209.5 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


[208]

 

2 Mortars — touching vessel

Water temperature

on Table Cent

July 2'

7º. 40 —

64

 18º

10' 40'

⸻⸻

69º

 —19º

12º

⸻ one mortar being very little

72º

 

⸻⸻

74º

—18 1/2

⸻⸻

76º

18 2/3

⸻⸻

77º

 

⸻⸻

— 80  

— 19º C.

 

(took away the larger Mortar)

 

 

4º  50

⸻⸻

79 barely

 

5º 50

⸻⸻

78º

 

7º 15

⸻⸻

72º—

 

10º P.m

⸻still Candle lately gone out

72 1/2

— 23º Fire in room

 

(Begin by making water in case at about 75º to 80º F & then put one mortar & cover with cloth which will make heat greater)

Bell-glass on 3 wooden Bricks Blocks

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I do not know whether Lepidoptera generally fly, fl keep to the flowers of the same species; but I once observed many minute moths (I believe Lampronia (Tinea) calthella) apparently eating the pollen of Mercurialis annua, and they had the whole front of their bodies covered with pollen: I then went to a female plant some yards off, and saw in the course of fifteen minutes three of these moths alight on the stigmas. Lepidoptera are probably often induced to frequent the flowers of if the flowers these having provided with

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[The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 418.]

[209]

Temperature

Upstairs under skylight

July 2d

6º 14.

18º C.

 

do

 

11

17 1/2

 

do

 

5.

18º

3' 6. —48'

 

 

3d

8º 16

16 1/2

 

11 — ⸻

17º

 

5. 20' —

17 1/2

4th

6º 45' a.m

16

 

12

16 3/4

15th

8º 30

18º nearly

 

9. 15.

do

16th

6º 40' a. m

 


28m. 3

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[one line obscured by tape]

= peated the experiment by planting near together two varieties of cabbage with purple-green and white-green lacinated leaves; and of the 325 seedlings raised from the purple-green variety, 165 had white-green and 160 purple-green leaves. Of the 466 seedlings raised from the white-green variety, 220 had purple-green leaves and 246 white-green leaves. These cases show how largely pollen from a neighbouring variety of the cabbage effaces the action

[The text of the draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman and corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 393.]

[210]

Maize

July 4'

9º a. m pinned to cork in jar with water at 80 79º F.— under Bell-glass & cloth over to fix card on in evening

9º a.m

Temp on Table

Room 18 1/2 C.

10'. 10

water 75ºF

 

11. 35

76º 1/2 F

 

78º

 

1. 30

78º

 

2. 15

⸻ do

 

4. 30

78 1/2

5º 24' 18 1/2

 

(Temperature on Study Table)


July 5th Temp upstairs rec.

in study.

10º 13 30'

18 2/3

 

 

3º ⸻⸻

do

 

7. 15  ⸻

18 1/2

 

10 — —

19 1/2

July 6 Temp in study

6º 40' a.m ⸻

18 1/2

 

11º 30

19 1/2 = 67º F

 

2. 3º & 4º ⸻

19 1/2

 

7 1/2 —

19 1/4

 

10º ⸻⸻

20º

July 7'

6º 45 a.m — 19º

 

 

10. 30 & 3º— 19º

 

 

8th 6º. 45 ⸻ 19º

22º to 23º C wd be perfect

21º 1/6

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[one line taped over]

must believe this has occurred from the presence of rudimentary stamens in the flowers of some individuals, and of rudimentary pistils in the flowers of others individuals of the same species, as for example in Lychnis dioica. But a conversion of this kind will not have occurred unless cross-fertilisation was already assured, generally by the agency of insects; but why the production of male and female flowers on distinct plants should have been advantageous, cross-fertilisation

[The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 411.]


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