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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   4 July [1879?]

Summary

Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  4 July [1879?]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11033

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   25 January [1879]

Summary

Movements in Oxalis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  25 Jan [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–1881: ff. 153–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11845

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   3 February 1879

Summary

Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  3 Feb 1879
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 158–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11857

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   21 February [1879]

Summary

Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  21 Feb [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11895

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   25 [February 1879]

Summary

Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  25 [Feb 1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 162)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11903

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   10 March [1879]

Summary

Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  10 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 163)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11921

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   13 March 1879

Summary

Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  13 Mar 1879
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 165)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11929

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   24 March 1879

Summary

Wants a Cassia identified

and several plants and seeds for experimental purposes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  24 Mar 1879
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 166–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11950

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   1 April [1879]

Summary

Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  1 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 169)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11964

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   3 April [1879]

Summary

Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  3 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 172)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11973

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   22 April [1879]

Summary

Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  22 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 62)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12009

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   5 June 1879

Summary

Has been writing life of Erasmus Darwin.

Wants plants with heliotropic aerial roots. Has proved root apex governs nature of flexure in upper part of root.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  5 June 1879
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 173–4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12086

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   18 June 1879

Summary

Thanks for plants

and case of sleeping Crotalaria.

"Bloom" for the present has "gone to the dogs".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  18 June 1879
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 176–7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12114

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   [after 26] July [1879]

Summary

Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  [after 26] July [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 180–1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12129

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   9 July [1879]

Summary

Structure of some "very curious" tendrils.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  9 July [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 178–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12141

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   1 September [1879]

Summary

Wants a plant that shows interesting sleep movements identified.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  1 Sept [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 182–3). Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. Letters: folio 184. Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12209

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   29 October 1879

Summary

Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  29 Oct 1879
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 187–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12275

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   20 November 1879

Summary

Wants a plant identified;

would like some cotton seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  20 Nov 1879
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 195–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12330

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   11 December [1879]

Summary

Wants some apheliotropic plants for experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  11 Dec [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 197–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12352
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