From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 12 July 1875
10 Gloucester Road | Kew
July 12, 1875
My dear Mr Darwin
Would you allow Lankester and myself to come next Sunday—the 18th. That is rather sooner than I originally suggested and if it should not be convenient to you to have us then perhaps we might come on the Sunday following1
I have very little of any consequence to send you for the “Variation”. I have checked some of the references and a few I can correct. The most important thing is the crossing of Chamærops humilis by the Date (i. p. 399). This Dr Hooker tells me Naudin has given up.2 We have some of the presumed hybrids at Kew. They are perfectly normal Chamærops.
Lankester is very sensible of your kindness in allowing us to visit you together I had already explained to him—and indeed he knows well—that you are not able to converse very much
Believe me | Yours very truly | W. T. Thiselton Dyer
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation 2d ed.: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.
Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10061
- From
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Gloucester Rd, Kew, 10
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 94
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10061,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10061.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
