RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Martins, Soc Bot Fr bull' 19 1872. CUL-DAR209.9.109. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. By 'radiation' Darwin means heat loss, a term he learned in Dr Hope's Chemistry classes in Edinburgh, "Heat is diffused by two ways conduction & radiation". CUL-DAR5.A6-A11. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
The volume CUL-DAR209.9 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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Bull Soc Bot XIX 1872
Martins says that all peasants know that cold with wind, is not so bad for their olives. M says radiation is what is feared
[Movement in plants, p. 284: "All gardeners know that plants suffer from radiation. It is this and not cold winds which the peasants of Southern Europe fear for their olives.‡ ‡ Martins in 'Bull. Soc. Bot. de France,' tom. xix. 1872."]
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Force of penetr of different parts of roots Adansonia V 1864
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[printed matter, Italian publication]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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