RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Ch 6 / Stokes showed me a Bamboo or Calamus from Java. CUL-DAR47.85. 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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Stokes showed me a Bamboo or Calamus from Java, the end of all which frond there is a crown of thick spines pointing downwards [sketch]— to aid it in climbing, beautiful case of final cause.—Here use of back-pointing hooks on Rubus & the Erythryna—
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