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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence - Letter from C. R. Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer)
Summary:

Thanks WTT-D for his present of Sachs’s book [Textbook of botany (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4)
Summary:

Discusses corrections to Variation.

Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 July 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 25–6)
Summary:

Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 27–8)
Summary:

CD obliged about the Schrankia

and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30)
Summary:

Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.

Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 33–4)
Summary:

Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 35–6)
Summary:

Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].

Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 37–8)
Summary:

Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.

Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 50–1)
Summary:

Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[19 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 52–5)
Summary:

CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project