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DCP-LETT-11616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 July [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 137–40)
Summary:

Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3)
Summary:

Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11675

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 144–5)
Summary:

Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.

Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.

Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 146–7)
Summary:

Heliotropism in roots.

Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 148–9)
Summary:

Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11727

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 150–2)
Summary:

Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 189–90)
Summary:

Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11753

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 207–8)
Summary:

CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.

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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