RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1857]. [weed garden] Ch 6 / When I give the no. of plants on Bit of turf in my lawn. CUL-DAR47.84. 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'.
This "weed garden" or lawn experiment which began in early 1857 is recorded in Darwin's Experiment Book (CUL-DAR157a.1-84) and is mentioned in his correspondence with Hooker and in Origin, 1859, pp. 67-8.
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When I give the no. of plants on Bit of turf in my lawn — given number which certainly could & would grow in their course of years judging from 180?? plants which grow in neighboring land of — acre of same soil.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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