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DCP-LETT-9508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13)
Summary:

Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9562

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 16–17)
Summary:

Describes how Pinguicula captures insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-06-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
E74/8253, unit 742, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-06-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
E74/8253, unit 742, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 14–15)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and seeds.

Asks that Hooker return references about plants eating insects.

Discusses Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 18)
Summary:

Thanks for letter on Erica tetralix.

Identification of leaves digested by Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 19–22)
Summary:

Must stop work on "bloom" and leaf movements if he is ever to get anything published on Drosera, etc.

Sends thanks for seeds. Encloses memorandum in case WTT-D wishes to communicate information to Royal Horticultural Society. Has not time to prepare article.

Discusses condition of plants borrowed from Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9527

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 July 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Carnivorous Plants)
Summary:

Describes leaf movements of Pinguicula and Drosera in capturing prey. Notes effects of ammonium carbonate on leaves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1216

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
6 July 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.229-231, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-07-09

From:
Thomas Ware
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 July 1874
Source of text:
No. 4979, pp. 629, 630, unit 37, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Circular letter sent, with the name of the appropriate department inserted, to 9 Ministers and 16 heads of subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-07-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 July 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 148
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 15 July 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 38–9)
Summary:

Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes]. Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC158

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 July 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.44, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH explains he has not written to Asa Gray recently because he is particularly busy during the absence of his aide, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, who is at South Kensington. JDH is working on a botanical primer for the Macmillan series & doing experiments for himself & Charles Darwin on insectivorous or carnivorous plants: Cephalotes, Nepenthes & Sarracenia. Has neglected work on GENERA PLANTARUM. Has had difficulty getting good systematic contributions for the FLORA INDICA, Thiselton-Dyer & Hiern did good work but Edgeworth, Masters, Andrews & Lawson all needed a lot of correction. Tells Gray about his trip to Florence, Italy for a Congress, run badly by Filippo Parlatore who JDH calls a Tragopogon [also known as 'goatsbeard'] & a 'little toad'. During the trip he saw the Miss Horners, Bakle & his wife, & Mrs Harvey. He also went to Paris, Nimes, Montpelier, Antibes, Hanbury's brother's place near Montara, Genoa, Spezzie [La Spezia] & Pisa & returned via Venice, the Brenner [Pass] Munich & Paris. [Letter appears incomplete. It bears no signature but is written in the hand of Joseph Dalton Hooker.]

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC370

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 July 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that Lord Hatherley has found in George Bentham's favour on all points [regarding the amendment of the Linnean Society by-laws]. JDH still hopes [Marcus Manuel] Hartog will accept the post [of Assistant Director, Peradeniya Botanic Garden] in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. In a post script JDH briefly discusses a recent experiment with carnivorous plants: Nepenthes rafllesiana & phyllamphora & mentions the difficulty of studying Darlingtonia & Cephalotus.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC626

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 July 1874
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 9, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC159

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Asa Gray]
Date:
-8-1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.45, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

[Letter appears to be incomplete as it bears no formal salutation, & the only date given has been added in pencil in a hand not that of the original author.] In the letter JDH writes to [Asa Gray] informing him that he is going to Belfast for the British Association. He will 'begin' at the Royal Society in November. Explains why he has refused Knight Commandership of St Michael & St George. As President of the Royal Society he feels he will inevitably be offered Knight Commandership of the Order of the Bath & will be obliged to accept even though he & his wife, Hyacinth Hooker, do not like such titles. In a post script he adds that Baker has Gay's plants ready for Gray & Mrs [Elizabeth] Lombe is unwell.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1217

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
5 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.232-234, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-08-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
6 August 1874
Source of text:
F74/10081, unit 744, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-74-08-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 August 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 149
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1483

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
12 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.289, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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