To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 September [1877]
Summary
Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11128 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 September [1877] …
- … 1873–81: ff. 93–4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Sept [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877] and n. 2), …
- … and there is a brief note, dated 8 September 1877, on the effects of shaking the plant and …
- … the growing tip in DAR 67: 7r. See also letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 31 August [1877] . Thiselton-Dyer had provided CD with specimens …
- … see, for example, letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] ). For CD’s interest …
- … in bloom, see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. CD and …
- … in plants; their experiment notes from 1877 and 1878 are in DAR 66 and DAR 68: 1–22. See …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 31 August [1877] and n. 10. No reply from Thiselton-Dyer …
- … p. 389. Specimens of T. dealbata had been sent from Kew on 3 July 1877 (see letter to W. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1877]
Summary
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 31 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 89–91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11122 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1877] …
- … 1873–81: ff. 89–91) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Aug [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7]. …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 August 1877 . Henry Nicholson Ellacombe sent CD a plant …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter from H. N. Ellacombe, 30 July [1877] ). The plant …
- … was received at Kew on 3 September 1877 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Inwards book ). …
- … letter from R. I. Lynch, [28 August 1877] ). In Sachs 1875 , p. 787, Sachs referred to …
- … receipt in the Inwards book (3 September 1877, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), the plant was …
- … Thomas Henry Farrer , from 20 to 25 August 1877 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Thiselton- …
- … probably refers to Thiselton-Dyer’s letter of 25 August 1877 ; no letter from Thiselton- …
- … Dyer dated 28 August 1877 has been found. CD had mentioned that the underside of only half …
- … of the leaf (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [20–4 August 1877] and n. 4). See letter …
- … from R. I. Lynch, [28 August 1877] ; Erythrina crista-galli is the cockspur coral tree. …
- … dated 11 and 12 July and 15 and 17 August 1877, are in DAR 209.10: 66–9. CD had forwarded …
- … 1877b (see letter to Nature , 15 August [1877] and nn. 2 and 3). Francis’s paper had been …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 28 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11076 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Kew on 26 July ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 26 [July 1877] ). …
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 July [1877] …
- … 1873–81: f. 79) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Bibliography Lynch, Richard Irwin. 1877. Note on the blimbing ( Averrhoa bilimbi , …
- … Linn. ). [Read 21 June 1877. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 16: 231–2. …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 . Richard Irwin Lynch was foreman of the …
- … of Averrhoa bilimbi , see the first letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] , …
- … Lynch 1877 , and Movement in plants , p. 330. CD had received plants from …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.
Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 72–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11059 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July [1877] …
- … Parlatore ( F. Darwin 1878a ). See also letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 8. …
- … 1873–81: ff. 72–3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … this letter and the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . See letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . Thiselton-Dyer had sent plants from the Royal Botanic …
- … plants (see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2). Now spelled Nelumbo (see …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 and n. 7). Averrhoa bilimbi (see letter …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 and n. 5. Haematoxylon campechianum (see letter …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 5). CD discussed the genus Lotus …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1877
Summary
Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11056 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1877 …
- … DAR 178: 98 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Kew 16 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 2. See letters to …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877], n. …
- … 2, and 14 July [1877] and n. 3. Strephium floribundum is a synonym of Raddia …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 4). Passiflora gracilis is annual …
- … Royal Gardens Kew July 16, 1877 Dear M r Darwin I enclose seeds of all the species of …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] ). Pistia stratiotes is water lettuce. …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 6. Senecio ficoides is a synonym of …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 58–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10798 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 17 January 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 58–9) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Jan 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Jan 17. 1877 Dear Dyer, Your praise of my book has …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [before 17 January 1877] , is incomplete and the section where …
- … The first part of Henslow’s review of Cross and self fertilisation ( Henslow 1877 , p. 42) …
- … had appeared in Gardeners’ Chronicle , 13 January 1877; two further parts appeared in …
- … issues of 3 and 17 February 1877. Henslow had criticised CD for not including figures in …
- … to Forms of flowers in his letter of [before 17 January 1877] . See letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, [before 17 January 1877] and n. 8. There is a note on Mussaenda …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 August 1877
Summary
Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 7 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 80–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11094 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 August 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 80–1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Aug 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter from H. N. Ellacombe, 30 July [ 1877] ). The plant …
- … was received at Kew on 3 September 1877 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Inwards book ). Lynch …
- … bloom and listed them in his letter of 25 July 1877 . For CD’s earlier research on the …
- … epicuticular coating known as bloom, see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Aug 7. 1877 My dear Dyer, You told me that after M r …
- … A plant was sent to CD on 5 September 1877 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Outwards book ). …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 July [1877]
Summary
Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.
Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 22 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 74–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11066 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 July [1877] …
- … from a carnivorous diet. See A. Murray 1877 . Murray denied that plants derived carbon …
- … 1873–81: ff. 74–7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Murray, Andrew. 1877. Experiments on the flow of …
- … the sap. Gardeners’ Chroncle , 21 July 1877, pp. 72–4. …
- … this letter and the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . See letters from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 and …
- … 18 July [1877] . Thiselton-Dyer had sent to Paris for seeds of Malva peruviana (a synonym …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . Logwood: Haematoxylum campechianum . See …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July 1877
Summary
Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.2: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11060 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July 1877 …
- … DAR 209.2: 159 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Kew 18 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877], n. 2. Villous: hairy. Cano-pubescent: …
- … See letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . See letter to W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] . In Bentham 1874 , George Bentham noted that Carolus …
- … Royal Gardens Kew July 18. 1877 Dear M r Darwin The plants were sent to you yesterday and …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 July 1877
Summary
Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11071 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 July 1877 …
- … DAR 178: 99 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Kew 25 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … pp. 368–9. See letter to H. N. Ellacombe, 30 July [1877] . Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer . …
- … See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] . Oxalis enneaphylla is scurvy-grass …
- … a second one, were sent on 16 July 1877. There is no record of an earlier Haematoxylon …
- … Royal Gardens Kew July 25. 1877 Dear M r Darwin On the recp t . of your letter I looked …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877]
Summary
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 9 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11043 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877] …
- … Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. George Bentham . …
- … 1873–81: ff. 67–8) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Gardens, Kew; see n. 2, below). The year 1877 is the only one in which CD is recorded as …
- … following plants were sent to Down on 3 July 1877: Arachis hypogaea (peanut); Desmodium …
- … bulrush). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 . CD resumed his earlier work on …
- … bloom, the waxy or powdery coating on some flowers and fruits, in 1877; see letter to …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 October 1877
Summary
Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 7 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 101–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11171 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 October 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 101–2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Oct 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Oct 7. 1877 My dear Dyer, One line to thank you much …
- … to W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 27 September [1877] ). CD had asked for a plant of Averrhoa …
- … tree) instead (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] , and letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 ). Francis and CD had studied movement in Averrhoa bilimbi …
- … over the summer (see letter to R. I. Lynch, 23 August [1877] ). Thiselton-Dyer …
- … married Harriet Anne Hooker on 23 June 1877. They had only one week of honeymoon before …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 85–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11102 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 August 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 85–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Aug 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … the Chelsea branch of the firm (see letter to Veitch & Sons, [before 11 August 1877] ). …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Aug 11. 1877 My dear Dyer The plants have arrived in a …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 August 1877 and n. 1. CD had asked for more plants for his …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] ). CD’s notes on his experiments with …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 August 1877 . John Smith , curator of the herbarium at …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1877]
Summary
"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 14 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 70–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11053 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1877] …
- … 1873–81: ff. 70–1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . CD discussed Lotus ornithopopoides (sic, …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1877] ). Hooker replied that they no longer had a …
- … at Kew ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). The nocturnal movement of the leaves of …
- … night. For CD’s interest in bloom, see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). Hooker had offered CD Strephium floribundum …
- … the species he intended; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1877] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). CD mentioned S. floribundum in Movement in plants , p. 391. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 [July 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the plants.
Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 26 [July 1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11072 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 [July 1877] …
- … 1873–81: f. 78) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 [July 1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … powdery or waxy coating on some plants (see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2). …
- … this letter and the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 July 1877 . See letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 July 1877 . …
- … Timiryazev visited Down on 25 July 1877; Thiselton-Dyer had furnished him with a letter of …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February 1877
Summary
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10848 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 60–1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Feb 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … fertilisation appeared in Nature , 15 February 1877, pp. 329–32. For CD’s argument on the …
- … 409–13; for Thiselton-Dyer’s counter-argument, see Nature , 15 February 1877, pp. 330–2. …
- … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Feb. 16 th 1877 Dear Dyer I must tell you how greatly I am …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [20–4 August 1877]
Summary
Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.
Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [20–4 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 87–8) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11086 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [20–4 August 1877] …
- … of Trustees) Charles Robert Darwin Down [20–4 Aug 1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … fruits (see letter from R. I. Lynch, 25 July 1877 , and first and second letters from R. …
- … I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877]). Trifolium resupinatum is Persian clover. CD’s …
- … raised from the seeds sent from Kew, made on 10 June [1877], are in DAR 68: 47. CD visited …
- … the home of Thomas Henry Farrer , from 20 to 25 August 1877 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 , and by the dates of CD’s visit to Abinger (see …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 24 August 1877]
Summary
Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.
Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [before 24 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 83–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11085 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 24 August 1877] …
- … ff. 83–4) Charles Robert Darwin Down [before 24 Aug 1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … bilimbi (see letter from R. I. Lynch, 25 July 1877 , and the first and second letters from …
- … R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877]). …
- … to W. T. Thiselton Dyer, [20–4 August 1877] . No letter from Thiselton-Dyer offering …
- … his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 August 1877, CD mentioned having just received thirty …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Euphorbia.
Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 22 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 97–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11149 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 97–8) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Sept 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … would be suitable for CD’s study of bloom (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 15 September [1877] . CD had asked for specimens of Euphorbia …
- … jacquiniiflora was sent to CD on 18 September 1877; his experimental notes are in DAR …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Sep 22 d 1877 My dear Dyer The Euphorbias arrived in …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11156 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 September [1877] …
- … 1873–81: f. 99) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Sept [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 September 1877 . CD had requested leaves from Eucalyptus …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 September 1877 . He also accepted Thiselton-Dyer’s offer of an …
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 28 hits
- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The year 1877 was more than usually full of honours. …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and …
- … a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). Research on movement would continue …
- … of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper eventually appeared …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
- … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
- … and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). Gifts of German and Dutch …
- … Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the journal ‘an …
- … the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every worker at …
- … of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished guests and …
- … & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by …
- … & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was staying in …
- … centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). Graham then gave a lengthy …
- … man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] ). A similar complaint came from …
- … by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back home, he learned from his brother that …
- … order of the day’ ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] ). Carlyle’s remarks were …
- … . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he was criticised for having quoted …
- … monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows …
- … back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles proposed that such …
- … of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). More transitional human …
- … inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The American physician Jesse …
- … (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). Dispute and …
- … George and Francis. He wrote to Francis on 24 September 1877 about his forthcoming work, Life …
- … value’, he confessed in a letter of 25 November 1877 that the book had ‘resolved itself into a …
- … physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 ). Darwin was doubtful of the elephant …
1877 letters now online
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Flowers, bloom, a son married . . . and a suspended monkey in Cambridge at Darwin's honorary LLD ceremony. The transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin's life in 1877…
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- … of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin& …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade …
- … have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 ) …
- … the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this oversight, the album …
- … world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) Familiar faces Ernst …
- … with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is …
- … worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 ) The professor of …
- … scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
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Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the …
- … lasting pleasure. ( Letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877 ) Harting had also written …
- … it states his ‘69th Birthday’, when in fact he was 68 in 1877. It was arranged in alphabetical order …
- … from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 ) Dutch correspondents …
- … ( Letter from C. W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ) Much earlier, in 1861, Tiberius Cornelis …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s …
- … my book’ ( To Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] ). In contrast, as Hooker told Darwin, …
- … gloats over it' ( From J. D. Hooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with …
- … have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March 1877, the edition was …
- … index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes were necessitated by …
- … wheat that he had studied ( From A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … tiredness of the later years (e.g. letter to E.M. Dicey, [1877] ). Working …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 11074: Sayce, A. H. to Darwin, C. R., 27 July 1877 Darwin’s study of human nature …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … activity at the site of a Roman villa, 15 November 1877 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer's …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … grains by a dilution method. In his letter of 9 March 1877 , Darwin wrote: ‘Your calculation of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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- … (see letter from From Emil Rade , [before 16] February 1877). The poems were composed by …
- … in Rade’s account of the making of the album (Rade 1877, pp. 39–40), but the others were published …
- … Letter from Emil Rade 1 [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. …
- … From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. February 1877. …
- … this letter and the letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877. 3. The gift was a photograph …
- … Appendix VI. A number of other poems were included in Rade 1877. …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Treat, 5 January 1872 Letter to [E. M. Dicey?], [1877] Letter to C. A. Kennard …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
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- … Lydia Becker (1877) Caricature of Lydia Becker from …
Movement in Plants
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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…
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a …
- … findings on floral dimorphism were eventually published in 1877, but these experiments and …
- … SOURCES Book Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the …
- … experiment, the class read chapter 1 of Charles Darwin’s 1877 T he Different Forms of …
- … Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (London: John Murray, 1877), 16. [2] Ibid., 30. …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…