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DCP-LETT-11339

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Summary:

Information on Cyclamen and other plants.

Identification of some plants.

"Bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5825

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 91
Summary:

The amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 436
Summary:

CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11503

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 154
Summary:

WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].

S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.

Heliotropism in aerial roots.

Frank Darwin’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11571

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 188
Summary:

Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.

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DCP-LETT-11612

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 103
Summary:

Sends specimens.

Sensitive plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11811

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 104
Summary:

Sends specimens of Commelyna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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