To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 June 1879
Summary
Thanks for plants
and case of sleeping Crotalaria.
"Bloom" for the present has "gone to the dogs".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 176–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12114 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … aerial roots for CD’s research on their tropic movements (see letter to W. T. Thiselton- …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [after 26] July [1879]
Summary
Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [after 26] July [1879] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 180–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12129 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … been requested so that CD could study tropic movements in their aerial roots (see letter …
From Francis Darwin [after 2 June 1879]
Summary
Geotropism.
Experimenting on Porlieria in damp and dry earth.
Hermann Müller has been ridiculed for teaching children "in the beginning was Carbon".
Will ask about Ernst Krause.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 June 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.5: 230–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12075 |
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- … movement that resulted from different tropic forces ( Frank 1873 ). Abscheulicher Mensch : …
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … field naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … begun to produce aerial roots. Darwin had hoped to study the tropic movements of such roots, but …
