To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February [1878]
Summary
Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Feb [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11362 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 and 21 February [1878]
Summary
Letter from Gaston de Saporta.
Germination of onion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 19 and 21 Feb [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 112–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11367 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 March 1878
Summary
CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 14 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11425 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 April 1878
Summary
Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 5 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 114–15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11464 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 [May 1878]
Summary
Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 19 [May 1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 116–18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11479 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 May [1878]
Summary
CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 9 May [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 119–21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11499 |
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 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 May 1878
Summary
Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 14 May 1878 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11508 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 20 [May 1878]
Summary
Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 20 [May 1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 124–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11518 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 June 1878
Summary
Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.
Working hard on plant movements.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 2 June 1878 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11540 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 June [1878]
Summary
Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.
Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 June [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 128–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11556 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June [1878]
Summary
Thanks for seeds and plants.
News of Francis and Horace Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 23 June [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11563 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 June [1878]
Summary
Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 25 June [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 133–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11565 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [27 June 1878]
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 June 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11571 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1878]
Summary
Movement and sensitivity of flower parts; relationship to cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 14 July [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 135–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11605 |
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 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 July [1878]
Summary
Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 19 July [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 137–40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11616 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 August [1878]
Summary
Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 2 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11637 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 August [1878]
Summary
Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.
Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.
Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 24 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 144–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11675 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 30 August [1878]
Summary
Heliotropism in roots.
Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 30 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 146–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11680 |
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