RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1872]. Draft of Expression, p. 353. CUL-DAR53.2.131r. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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-DAR53.2 contains drafts, notes & clippings for Darwin's book The expression of the emotions (1872) and notes to correct a further edition.
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that the seedlings raised [illeg] from these were were inferior [illeg] in height & in other respects ways to those raised frm the lighter crossed seeds, although it is as in the lower growth of Ipomaea, with Brassica, Tropaeolum & Nemophila; notwithstanding this it is impossibly to doubt that heavy & fine seeds would tend to yield fine plants: This fact, as I may add, shows
& it cannot be doubted that fine & heavy seeds would tend to yield
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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