RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1879]. Beans / Sensitiveness. CUL-DAR209.5.42. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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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(Hot-House)
I suspect grew much longer when kept cool though Sachs fond to be a a
The beans were pinned upside down in cork of lid of Ap 5— the cylinder half filled with water & kept darkened in middle hot-house.
9. 30 AM
3 40 pm } in 6°. 10'
bits of glass shellacced on 1 & 2
(2) curled in a semicircle at tip away from Sachs curve & away from the bit of glass. (Used) (Sensitiveness)
4. 50 No 1 still straight so added a new splinter of glass below the old one—
The lengths of roots were not measured before, now 5. 35 pm they are
No 1 — 30 mm = inches—
No 28 mm = 2
About 5 pm shellacced on glass onto number 3° whose root is to 17 mm =
Ap 6 9. 15 A.M—
No 2 curled right round
No 1 & 3 unaltered
shellacced on glass onto No 4 & No 5 & increased the glass on No1 & 3
4 pm
Perceptible curve away from glass which is also away from Sachs in 5 3 & 4
Result 4 out of 5 bent from glass splinters
1 did not bend at all (& this became brown Apr 7th)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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