From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10402 |
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- … 39–40) Charles Robert Darwin Francis Darwin Down 18 Feb 1876 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … from Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [1876] and n. 9. …
- … From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 February 1876 …
- … from Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [1876] and n. 2. …
- … Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [1876] and n. 3. Pleroma ( …
- … Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [1876] and n. 4). The ‘ …
- … 1876] and n. 5. Acacia cornigera (bull-horn acacia) and Cecropia peltata (the embauba or trumpet-tree) were the species sent. Francis Darwin …
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 February [1876]
Summary
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10391 |
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- … 22a) Charles Robert Darwin Francis Darwin Down 14 Feb [1876] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 February [1876] …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 15 February 1876 . Francis Darwin , the amanuensis, evidently wrote …
- … Francis used A. elatior (a synonym of Arrhenatherum elatius , false oat grass) in his experiments. His paper ‘On the hygroscopic mechanism by which certain seeds are enabled to bury themselves in the ground’ appeared in Transactions of the Linnean Society in June 1876 ( F. Darwin …
- … 1876] and n. 2). Hooker had sent Francis grass seeds from India (see Correspondence vol. 23, letter from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1875 ). There is an annotated copy of Ernst Gottlieb Steudel’s Nomenclator botanicus ( Steudel 1841 ) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 788–9). Francis …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September [1876]
Summary
Would like Catasetum and Acropera plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10612 |
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 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 16 September 1876
Summary
Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.
Plans to visit Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 47–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10602 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [4 February 1876]
Summary
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10380 |
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 |
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- … 1876 with funds for building and equipiment from Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell (see Thiselton-Dyer 1910 and Correspondence vol. 22, letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1874 ). Thiselton-Dyer was given responsibility for the laboratory and encouraged botanists to use its facilities (see R. Desmond 1995 , p. 250). CD was most familiar with the botanical laboratory of Julius Sachs in Würzburg (see Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Julius Sachs, 4 July 1875 ); Francis Darwin …
Document type
| letter | (8) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Moore, Thomas (b) | (1) |
Correspondent
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Moore, Thomas (b) | (1) |
