The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.04.12]. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary travels and researches in South Africa, etc. CUL-DAR47.45. 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. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.

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Livingstone Travels p. 535. The young trees of a Leucodendron, when no rain has fallen, "twist their leaves round during the heat of the day so that the edge only is exposed to the rays of the sun." The acacias in the same circumstance & a Bauhinia fold their leaves together presenting the smallest possible surface to the sun.—"

["Livingstone Travels (the best Travels I ever read)", ('Books Read / Books to be Read' notebook. Text CUL-DAR128.-.)

Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast: thence across the continent, from the river Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London.]

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)