To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 33–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10202 |
From Federico Delpino 11 September 1875
Summary
Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,
and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.
Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.
Defines biology as the science of external interactions.
German reception is far more positive than Italian.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10155 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 October [1875]
Summary
Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.
Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10180 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 October [1875] ). CD evidently wrote ‘Marantaceous’ and ‘eurifolium’ by mistake; Monochaetum belongs to the family Melastomaceae (now Melastomataceae), not Marantaceae (see also letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 October 1875 ). He had made observations on Monochaetum ensiferum (a synonym of M. calcaratum ,) between February 1862 and May 1863 ( …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 20 October 1875
Summary
It has been empirically established at Kew that insular plants tend to be heteromorphic, plants with entire leaves tending to produce divided leaves.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 205–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10206 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 15 October [1875] and n. 5. Daniel Oliver was keeper of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In Flora Indica ( Roxburgh 1832 , 3: 202), William Roxburgh noted that seeds of Hibiscus tricuspis (now Talipariti hastatum , Tahiti hibiscus) had originally been sent by missionaries from Otaheite (Tahiti) to the botanic garden in Calcutta. William Bell’s letter of 29 March 1863 , …
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1875]
Summary
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 397–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10209 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 14 October 1875 and n. 4). Horace Darwin’s hygrometer is described in F. Darwin 1876c , pp. 155–6. Stipa : needlegrass. CD’s annotated copy of Henry Watts’s Dictionary of chemistry is in the Darwin Library–Down (see Marginalia 1: 195–6). CD’s copy consists of the first three volumes of the second edition ( Watts 1872–4 ), volumes four and five of an 1871 reprint of the first edition ( Watts 1863– …
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| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
