RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].09.08. Tomato / Draft of Descent, vol. 2. CUL-DAR209.6.164. (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 12.2022. 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-DAR209.6 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 2: 287.
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Sept 8th Tomato
Left Right
8° 7' a.m in dark 8° 7' a.m in dark
9 . 30' greatly fallen ⊙
9° 30' fallen ⊙
10 . 34 fallen new ⊙raised Pot
10° 34 fallen ⊙
11 . 50 do
11 50 do & to right
1 33 do (now expanded Horizontally.) 1. 33 down & to left (horizontally)
2. 53 risen 2° 53 risen little & gone back down to ⊙
4. 33 a god deal fallen 4. 33 to right & up
6° down & to left 6° to left on same level (I cannot doubt circumnutates)
8° down & right 8° P.m The Cots are symmetrical of both seedlings
8° circumnutates about same spot
10 . 5'. still lower down— not marked (Cots all open) 10. 5' in middle of old marks has moved since last observation
9th
7° 50' risen considerably — moved glass ⊙ 7° 50' a little to right on same level .
9° risen (ought to fall at this hour.) 9° risen.
10 . 23— nearly same spot
10° 23' gone back to centre of curl
(I see all bowed to side window— so say kept as dark as they cd be as they had to be looked at).
12° up to level of 9°
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"blanc moins pur, les raies ayant moins de largeur et les taches moins de diamétre."*(44) The two sexes of the allied Felis mitis also differ, in but even in a less degree, the general hues of the female being rather paler than in the male, with the spots less black. The marine Carnivora, on the other hand some of which present remarkable sexual differences in structure, sometimes differ much in considerably in colour, & they present, as we have already seen, other remarkable sexual differences. Thus the male of the Otaria nigrescens of the southern hemisphere is of a rich brown shade above; whilst the female, who acquires her adult colour tints earlier in life than the male, [text excised], the young of both sexes being
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