To Veitch & Sons [before 11 August 1877]
Summary
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Veitch & Sons |
Date: | [before 11 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10749 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 85–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11102 |
From G. J. Romanes 11 August 1877
Summary
Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11103 |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Veitch & Sons | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Veitch & Sons | (1) |