From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 August 1877
Summary
CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.
Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11111 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1877]
Summary
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 89–91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11122 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 September [1877]
Summary
Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11128 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 September [1877]
Summary
Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., 1873–81: ff. 95–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11141 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Euphorbia.
Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 97–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11149 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11156 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [21 October 1877]
Summary
Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11161 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 October 1877
Summary
Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 101–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11171 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 October [1877]
Summary
Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 103–5) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11178 |
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| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (9) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
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| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. |
