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 John Ralfs 8 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for the Pinguicula plants, which have recovered, and asks if he could also send Utricularia, since his other supplies have failed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Ralfs |
| Date: | 8 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 76527) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9534F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 June 1874
Summary
Did not know cabbage contained so much nitrogen.
Pinguicula more excited by seeds than Drosera. Asks for information about Pinguicula.
Asks name of weed.
Asks to borrow Utricularia plant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 9 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9486 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 December 1874
Summary
Explains that his letter had to do with how he should act publicly to Mivart if he retracted. He would not forgive him. If he does not retract, it would no longer be possible to keep him Secretary of the Linnean Society.
Drosophyllum will be sent when weather permits.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 243–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9788 |
Matches: 1 hit
From J. D. Hooker [29 August 1874]
Summary
Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.
Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.
Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 219–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9610 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker’s return from the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Belfast. The meeting finished on 26 August 1874; the following Saturday was 29 August. Castle Kennedy is three miles east of Stranraer in Scotland; Stranraer was the port used for crossings to and from Belfast in Ireland. Castle Kennedy burned down in the eighteenth century and its ruins remained in the famous Castle Kennedy Gardens ( M’Kerlie 1870–9 , 1: 162–3). Letter to J. D. …
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Ralfs, John | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
