RECORD: Darwin, William Erasmus. 1875.03.05. The leaves off one plant of Chinese Primrose, with their stalks, but without the stalks of the flowers. CUL-DAR59.2.92-93. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).


[92]

[Numbered leaf tracings 1-7]

Mar 5th 1875

The leaves off one plant of Chinese Primrose, with their stalks, but without the stalks of the flowers. Total area of the figures above as measured by Amslers Planimeter = 39.285 sq. in.

Therefore total surface on which hairs grow = 78.57 square in

Area of leaf [measurements]

WED

[93]

[Numbered leaf tracings 8-13]


Return to homepage

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

File last updated 25 September, 2022