From W. T. Thiselton Dyer 18 January 1878
Summary
Sends quotations on Dionaea and Sarracenia. [See Insectivorous plants, 2d ed., pp. 243, 366.]
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: B16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11325 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 29 January 1878
Summary
Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11339 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 May 1878
Summary
WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].
S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.
Heliotropism in aerial roots.
Frank Darwin’s work.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11503 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [27 June 1878]
Summary
Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 June 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11571 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1878
Summary
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11612 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 30 December 1878
Summary
Sends specimens of Commelyna.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11811 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 3 February 1878]
Summary
The amphicarpic habit.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5825 |
