From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [20 January 1879]
Summary
H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.
CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Jan 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10341 |
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 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 January 1879
Summary
Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 259, DAR 209.6: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11847 |
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 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 April 1879
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.9: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12010 |
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 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 10 June 1879
Summary
Sleep in Crotalaria.
Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.10: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12099 |
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 |
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