RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Number of crosses (calculation). CUL-DAR27.2.B46. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2025. RN1

NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The folder CUL-DAR27.2 contains notes for and the draft of Darwin's paper 'On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria'. 1864-5. F1731.


B46

Number of crosses

26

26

30

25

40

24

28

——

223 [total not in Darwin's hand] crosses made—

[calculations not transcribed]

One cross seems like a dozen each [?]

B46v

(One anther suffices)

Natural & unnatural unions

O not [illeg] or no seed


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