To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 October [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Oct. 26
My dear Dyer
I am very glad that you think Dr. King’s notes worth sending to Linn. Socy.2 If I understand the case rightly, the Imant. Cyrtanthiflorum, which I have got from Kew is a hybrid, but that there is also a true I. cyrtanthiflorum. I certainly ought to possess the latter for my experiments, if you have no scruple in getting a plant from M J. Henderson.3
Please thank Hooker for the seeds which are a treasure to Frank.4 I have despatched Pfeiffer to Linn. Socy.5
Many thanks for the paper on Thallophytes which you were so kind as to send me.—6 I have begun reading it with great interest, as it is almost all new to me.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Pfeiffer, Ludwig . 1873–4. Nomenclator botanicus. 2 vols. Cassel: Theodor Fischer.
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1875. On the classification and sexual reproduction of thallophytes. London: J. E. Adlard. [Revised version of ‘Sexual reproduction of thallophytes’. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science n.s. 15 (1875): 295–326.]
Summary
Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.
Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10227
- 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: 37–8)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10227,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10227.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23