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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
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FVM-78-06-10c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 June 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 218
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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-11561F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
21 June [1878?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 314)
Summary:

Thanks for bananas.

Will rejoice when Joseph Dalton Hooker is no longer burdened by his Royal Society duties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC656

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 36, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker 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

JHC805

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Joseph Whitworth
Date:
29 June 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.107, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC657

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 37, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royal Society Letters, c . 1875 – c . 1905, JDH/2/18: f.36)
Summary:

JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.

Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-07-08a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
8 July 1878
Source of text:
VPRS 5831/PO/7, correspondence inward — miscellaneous letters, p. 160, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria 1869-1944, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

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

JHC400

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 July 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.48, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Letter informing Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer of the death of JDH's niece Willielma Campbell née Hooker. Her mother Isabella [Whitehead Hooker] has not been clear about the cause of Willielma's death. She will be buried at the Glasgow necropolis near the High Church. JDH & family will travel to Glasgow & stay at the Royal Hotel, Georges' Square.

Contributor:
Hooker 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
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FVM-78-07-20a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Duthie
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Letters to J. F. Duthie, vol. 2, f.119
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-78-07-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 18.5, Falkland Islands. Miscellaneous, 1841-1928 (MR/770), f. 327.The series contains a group of correspondence related to the Tussock Grass, including references to seed being sent to both Guilfoyle and M, as well as correspondence with Lady Matheson on whose estate in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, it had been growing
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1734

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
2 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker 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
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FVM-78-08-03

From:
William Elliott
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 August 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 18.5, Falkland Islands. Miscellaneous, 1841-1928, f. 326
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718)
Summary:

GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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