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DCP-LETT-12411F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 311)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of bananas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200)
Summary:

Thanks for cotton seeds.

Germination of Megarrhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12431

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2)
Summary:

Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4)
Summary:

Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12485

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722)
Summary:

CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6)
Summary:

Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 209–11)
Summary:

WTT-D’s suggestion about absorbent function of pegs in Abronia suggests origin of pegs in Welwitschia, which deeply interests CD. Previously could not see how pegs became large enough to be of mechanical use. Now thinks tissue between hypocotyl and radicle absorbs fluid, which would favour rise of peg to expose larger surface.

Rejects German contempt for investigating use of organs.

Asks WTT-D to observe how worms draw Robinia leaves into burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12942

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 723)
Summary:

Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12982

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/136/949)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 212–13)
Summary:

Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13104

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 Apr 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 214–15)
Summary:

Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Apr [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 216)
Summary:

Thanks for Monochaetum flowers; his old notes have now become intelligible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 Apr 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 218–19)
Summary:

About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13130

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Apr [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 220–1)
Summary:

Wants Trifolium seed.

Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 May [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 224)
Summary:

Wants a Clematis identified. Has been observing how earthworms drag down its petioles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13153

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
10 May [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 226)
Summary:

Thanks for WTT-D’s attempts to get the Trifolium seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: ff. 228–9)
Summary:

Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13487

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 231–2)
Summary:

Would be grateful for some Euphorbia species for examination of the roots. "The subject is by no means worth all the labour I am bestowing on it, but I cannot bear to be beaten."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 230)
Summary:

Magnificent supply of Euphorbiae arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13500

From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39)
Summary:

The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.

Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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