RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d.  I must try gum alone. CUL-DAR209.6.15. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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-DAR209.6 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

Notes for Movement in plants. Text F1325.

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I must try gum alone & gum with cotton wool I must try gum shell-lac, thick, little squares obliquely under

Differential pressure of card & paper

[sketch] B

Plaister of Paris

Plant Hilum downwards

(Perhaps too Hot)

Perhaps beans will not

Thick gum

Try small squares & long squares pressed of glass & sandy paper — Plaster of Paris mere paper

Small-pox pride

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