RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR63.54r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1
NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The excised text has been added in square brackets.
The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 66.
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tallest self-fertilised plants were only 8 and [5 1/2] inches in height high.
In another pot crossed seeds were sown four [days af]ter the self-fertilised: and the seedlings [from the latter] had at first, as might have been expected, [an adva]ntage; but when the two lots were between 5 and [6 inches] in height, they were equal, & ultimately the three [tallest] crossed plants were 11, 10, and 8 inches, in height [whilst the] three tallest self-fertilised were 12, 8 1/2, and 7 1/2 inches in
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