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DCP-LETT-10798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
17 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 58–9)
Summary:

Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation

and for information about Mussaenda.

Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10848

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1)
Summary:

Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.

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DCP-LETT-11043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8)
Summary:

Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.

Occurrence of "bloom".

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DCP-LETT-11053

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 70–1)
Summary:

"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.

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DCP-LETT-11059

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 72–3)
Summary:

Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.

Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 74–7)
Summary:

Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.

Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 [July 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 78)
Summary:

Thanks for the plants.

Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 79)
Summary:

Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 80–1)
Summary:

Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 85–6)
Summary:

Thanks for plants.

Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.

WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[20–4 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 87–8) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees)
Summary:

Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.

Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[before 24 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 83–4)
Summary:

Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.

Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11122

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 89–91)
Summary:

Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.

Thanks for letter about Trifolium

and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.

Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4)
Summary:

Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11141

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., 1873–81: ff. 95–6)
Summary:

Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.

Contributor:
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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:
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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.]

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