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DCP-LETT-11464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 Apr 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 114–15)
Summary:

Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 May [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 119–21)
Summary:

CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.

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.

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DCP-LETT-11508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3)
Summary:

Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 [May 1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 116–18)
Summary:

Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 [May 1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 124–5)
Summary:

Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 June 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7)
Summary:

Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.

Working hard on plant movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 128–9)
Summary:

Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.

Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11563

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds and plants.

News of Francis and Horace Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11565

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 133–4)
Summary:

Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11605

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 July [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 135–6)
Summary:

Movement and sensitivity of flower parts; relationship to cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-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
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