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DCP-LETT-11056

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 98
Summary:

Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11060

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.2: 159
Summary:

Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11071

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 99
Summary:

Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11100

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 100
Summary:

Information on plants requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11111

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 101
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11161

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 189
Summary:

Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11301

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 16 Oct 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 86: B18
Summary:

Comments on Insectivorous plants, p. 353 mentioning J. J. T. Schloesing’s experiments with carbonate of ammonia [see J. J. T. Schloesing, "Sur l’absorption de l’ammoniaque de l’air par les végétaux", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 78 (1874): 1700–3].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11339

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Summary:

Information on Cyclamen and other plants.

Identification of some plants.

"Bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11503

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 154
Summary:

WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].

S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.

Heliotropism in aerial roots.

Frank Darwin’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11571

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 188
Summary:

Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11612

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 103
Summary:

Sends specimens.

Sensitive plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11811

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 104
Summary:

Sends specimens of Commelyna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11847

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 259, DAR 209.6: 207
Summary:

Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12010

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.9: 111
Summary:

Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12099

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.10: 85
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].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12281

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 335
Summary:

Terminology for asexual gemmae of Lunularia vulgaris and comparison with Marchantia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5825

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 91
Summary:

The amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9174

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 178: 92
Summary:

Movement in plants.

Information on species of Cassia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9478

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 178: 93
Summary:

Movement in plants; effect of syringing on Opuntia plants that capture insects with their flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9484

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 56–7
Summary:

Sends information on nitrogen and albuminoid content of seeds of Brassica.

Contributor:
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