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DCP-LETT-11149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Sept 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 97–8)
Summary:

Thanks for Euphorbia.

Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11156

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99)
Summary:

Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 101–2)
Summary:

Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
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)
Summary:

Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 106–7)
Summary:

Thanks for WTT-D’s help.

Burying action of seeds.

"Bloom" on ferns.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9)
Summary:

Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.

Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11)
Summary:

Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11367

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 and 21 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 112–13)
Summary:

Letter from Gaston de Saporta.

Germination of onion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-114

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[2 Sept 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 3 DAR/1/1/3)
Summary:

Has just arrived in Cambridge; his father has changed his mind. Asks to see JSH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11412F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310)
Summary:

Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 Apr 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 114–15)
Summary:

Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 [May 1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 116–18)
Summary:

Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 May [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 119–21)
Summary:

CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3)
Summary:

Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 [May 1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 124–5)
Summary:

Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 June 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7)
Summary:

Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.

Working hard on plant movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 128–9)
Summary:

Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.

Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11563

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds and plants.

News of Francis and Horace Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11565

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 133–4)
Summary:

Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1158

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.

Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.

Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.

Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.

Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.

Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.

Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.

CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.

Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.

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