To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June [1878]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
June 23d
My dear Dyer
One line to thank you for Oxalis seeds & the Stapelia. Instinct must have told you that Stapelia wd be very interesting to me, as it is.—2 Geograph. Distrib. is an awful subject, but I have no doubt that with your great knowledge you will do it splendidly.—3
Sachs has asked Frank to show him the Teazle filaments & I have been delighted to hear that he examined them for a long time; & kept on exclaiming “die merkwurdigste Dinge, Sonderbar, Sonderbar.”4
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
I know that Sir Joseph loves Douglas Galton, & so he will grieve to hear how he has behaved to Horace! He asked Horace to assist him about Brakes & H. though that they were to be joint authors. Horace wrote more than half the paper—undertook all the correspondence & superintended all the experiments, without any payment; and Galton publishes the paper as his own, saying merely that he had been assisted by Mr H. Darwin!—5
P.S | I almost forgot one chief object in writing to send seeds of Nicotiana glauca, which you said you wd like to have.6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Galton, Francis. 1878. Composite portraits. Nature, 23 May 1878, pp. 97–100.
Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1878. Lecture on plant-distribution as a field for geographical research. [Read 24 June 1878.] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London 22 (1878–9): 412–45.
Summary
Thanks for seeds and plants.
News of Francis and Horace Darwin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11563
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11563,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11563.xml