To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 December 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Dec 22. 1873
My dear Mr Dyer
I thank you heartily. Your letter & extracts are of much value to me, & it was very good of you to take so much trouble.1 I had wished to know about the re-secretion of bloom, & had ascertained that this does not occur in Desmodium.2 I am particularly glad to hear about Robinia, which I knew slept & had thought of syringing, but shd perhaps have neglected.3
The scepticism of Du Chartres about Dionæa is very rich.4
With very many thanks | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Duchartre, Pierre Etienne Simon. 1867. Éléments de botanique: comprenant l’anatomie, l’organographie, la physiologie des plantes, les familles naturelles et la géographie botanique. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils.
Summary
Concerning secretion of "bloom";
movements of Robinia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9189
- 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: 3–4)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9189,” accessed on 20 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9189.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
