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JHC1214

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.222-224, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 8–9)
Summary:

Discusses effects of water on movement of insectivorous plants.

Has just found that Pinguicula can digest albumen.

Asa Gray writes that Sarracenia secretes trail of fluid to attract insects [see 9455].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9486

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 10)
Summary:

Did not know cabbage contained so much nitrogen.

Pinguicula more excited by seeds than Drosera. Asks for information about Pinguicula.

Asks name of weed.

Asks to borrow Utricularia plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-06-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 June 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 147
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1554

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.37-38, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1215

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.225-228, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC799

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Henry? Smith
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.98, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13)
Summary:

Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9562

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 16–17)
Summary:

Describes how Pinguicula captures insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

FVM-74-06-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
E74/8253, unit 742, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-74-06-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
E74/8253, unit 742, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 14–15)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and seeds.

Asks that Hooker return references about plants eating insects.

Discusses Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 18)
Summary:

Thanks for letter on Erica tetralix.

Identification of leaves digested by Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 19–22)
Summary:

Must stop work on "bloom" and leaf movements if he is ever to get anything published on Drosera, etc.

Sends thanks for seeds. Encloses memorandum in case WTT-D wishes to communicate information to Royal Horticultural Society. Has not time to prepare article.

Discusses condition of plants borrowed from Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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