To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 March [1881]
Summary
Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 Mar [1881] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 212–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13094 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 6 June 1876
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10534 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 January [1880]
Summary
Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 27 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June 1874
Summary
Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 23 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9508 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 4 June 1874
Summary
Discusses effects of water on movement of insectivorous plants.
Has just found that Pinguicula can digest albumen.
Asa Gray writes that Sarracenia secretes trail of fluid to attract insects [see 9455].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 4 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 8–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9481 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 12 November [1881]
Summary
Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: ff. 228–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13480 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11344 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 June 1874
Summary
Reports on his examination of the dried specimens of Pinguicula at Kew to answer CD’s query whether all species secrete.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 64–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9513 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 November 1881
Summary
Would be grateful for some Euphorbia species for examination of the roots. "The subject is by no means worth all the labour I am bestowing on it, but I cannot bear to be beaten."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 231–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13487 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 July 1875
Summary
Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 25–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10084 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 [June 1874]
Summary
Must stop work on "bloom" and leaf movements if he is ever to get anything published on Drosera, etc.
Sends thanks for seeds. Encloses memorandum in case WTT-D wishes to communicate information to Royal Horticultural Society. Has not time to prepare article.
Discusses condition of plants borrowed from Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 28 [June 1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 19–22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9571 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 December [1875]
Summary
Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 50–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10299 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 April [1881]
Summary
Wants Trifolium seed.
Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 Apr [1881] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 220–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13130 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [19 December 1875]
Summary
CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [19 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 52–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10308 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1877]
Summary
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 31 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 89–91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11122 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 April 1881
Summary
About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 9 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 218–19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13109 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 October [1878]
Summary
Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 24 Oct [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 150–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11727 |
From Thomas Moore to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 February 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for the names of species from which Cineraria varieties supplied to him have sprung. [Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 335 n.]
Author: | Thomas Moore |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10394 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 April 1881
Summary
Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 1 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 214–15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13104 |
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- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 21 March [1881] . Pinguicula is the genus of butterworts. In 1862, CD began to study the differential fertility of two types of stamens in flowers of several plants in the family Melastomaceae (a synonym of Melastomataceae), including the genus Monochaetum . Flowers of many species in this family have two sets of stamens that differ both structurally and in colour. In notes dated 12 …
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 |
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- … 12 February 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Gay: presumably Jacques Gay . The sketches have not been identified. Hooker purchased Jacques Gay’s herbarium in 1868 (L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 48). Leopold Trattinnick; Trattinnick 1812–18 ( Archiv der Gewächskunde : Archive of botany). This text has been restored from CD’s quotation of it in his letter …
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
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Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
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Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
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Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …