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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 111: B55–8r
Summary:

Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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.

Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 32–5
Summary:

Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".

Contributor:
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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".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 98
Summary:

Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.2: 159
Summary:

Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.

Contributor:
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 99
Summary:

Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.

Contributor:
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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
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
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
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:
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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:
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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].

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