From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 100
Summary:
Information on plants requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 101
Summary:
CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.
Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 189
Summary:
Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 106–7)
Summary:
Thanks for WTT-D’s help.
Burying action of seeds.
"Bloom" on ferns.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9)
Summary:
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11)
Summary:
Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 and 21 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 112–13)
Summary:
Letter from Gaston de Saporta.
Germination of onion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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