From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   11 May 1878

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.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-11503

From

William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

To

Charles Robert Darwin

Date

11 May 1878

Sent from

Kew

Source of text

DAR 209.8: 154

Physical description

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Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 26.

• Darwin, C. R.
• Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.