To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 January [1878]
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s help.
Burying action of seeds.
"Bloom" on ferns.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 106–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11340 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 January [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 106–7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Jan [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 January 1878 and n. 16. Joseph Dalton Hooker . See …
- … December 1877 and n. 26, and this volume, letter to Gaston de Saporta, 31 January 1878 . …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 January 1878 . Daniel Oliver and John Gilbert Baker . …
- … See letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 January 1878 . George Bentham . See letter from …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 January 1878 and n. 7, and Forms of flowers 2d ed. , pp. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11344 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 February [1878] …
- … de Saporta ; see letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [before 3 February 1878] and n. 5. …
- … 1873–81: 108–9) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Feb [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [before 3 February 1878] . The grass was probably mentioned in a …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [before 3 February 1878] . CD noted a roadside grass that produced …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [before 3 February 1878] and n. 4. Amphicarpa (a synonym of …
- … vine or cruel plant); see letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 January 1878 and n. 12. …
- … Thiselton-Dyer’s letter of [before 3 February 1878] is incomplete, but he evidently told …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February [1878]
Summary
Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11362 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 110–11) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Feb [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 February [1878] . See letter to W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 February [1878] . In 1877, CD had mentioned that the underside of …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 and 21 February [1878]
Summary
Letter from Gaston de Saporta.
Germination of onion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 19 and 21 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 112–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11367 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 and 21 February [1878] …
- … 81: 112–13) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 and 21 Feb [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … to D. F. Nevill of 19 and 21 February [1878] . Joseph Dalton Hooker evidently asked George …
- … embryonic organs in grasses; see memorandum from George Henslow , [ c. 20 February 1878]. …
- … the letter from Gaston de Saporta, 16 February 1878 . CD had asked for seeds of Trifolium …
- … resupinatum (Persian clover) in his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 16 February [1878]. See …
- … letter from Gaston de Saporta, 16 February 1878 ; Thiselton-Dyer had sent Joseph Dalton …
- … leaf in his letter of [before 3 February 1878] . Ceratopteris is a genus of aquatic, …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [ c. 20 February 1878] . CD discussed the apheliotropic (growing …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 March 1878
Summary
CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 436 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11425 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 March 1878 …
- … DAR 144: 436 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Mar 1878 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Down, Beckenham, Kent. March 14th, 1878. My dear Dyer, I have a very strong opinion that …
- … Darwin worked there in the summer of 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Kliment …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 April 1878
Summary
Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 114–15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11464 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 April 1878 …
- … Review of Forms of flowers [ Nature 17 (1878): 445–7]. …
- … 1873–81: 114–15) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Apr 1878 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … by means of the spiral contraction of their peduncles ( Nature , 4 April 1878, p. 446). …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. April 5— 1878 My dear Dyer I have just read in Nature …
- … anonymous review appeared in Nature , 4 April 1878, pp. 445–7. Thiselton-Dyer was named as …
- … the ovaries were buried ( Nature , 4 April 1878, p. 446). Thiselton-Dyer had stated that …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 May [1878]
Summary
CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 9 May [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 119–21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11499 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 May [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 119–21) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 9 May [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Southampton, from 27 April to 13 May 1878 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The enclosure …
- … of Cycas in November 1877 and February 1878 (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to J. D. …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 [February 1878] ). According to the Outwards book (Archives, …
- … sent seedlings of Cycas pectinata on 16 May 1878. Julius Sachs had examined the movement …
- … their first child, Frances Harriet, on 9 April 1878 ( Allan 1967 s.v. ‘Hooker pedigree’). …
- … An article in The Times , 4 May 1878, p. 6, commented on the first of five lectures on …
- … Britain ; the first lecture was on 30 April 1878. Thiselton-Dyer had reportedly said that …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 May 1878
Summary
Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11508 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 May 1878 …
- … 1873–81: 122–3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 May 1878 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … John Murray. 1875. Lynch, Richard Irwin. 1878. On the seed-structure and germination …
- … of Pachira aquatica . [Read 2 May 1878. ] Journal …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 17 (1878–80): 147–8. …
- … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. May 14 th . 1878 My dear Dyer. I am particularly obliged for …
- … Letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 May 1878 . See letter to W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 May [1878] and n. 7. …
- … In his letter of 11 May 1878 , Thiselton-Dyer sought to correct the impression CD had …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 May [1878] and n. 4). Francis Darwin had taken his …
- … Darwin ; according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), he returned to Down on 27 May 1878. …
- … autumn. A report in the Athenaeum , 11 May 1878, p. 606, noted that Richard Irwin Lynch’s …
- … germination of a species of Pachira was read before the Linnean Society on 2 May 1878 ( …
- … Lynch 1878 ). Lynch described the germination of Pachira aquatica (Guiana-chestnut or …
- … the paper that appeared in Nature , 23 May 1878, p. 110, described the unequal cotyledons …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 [May 1878]
Summary
Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 19 [May 1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 116–18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11479 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 [May 1878] …
- … 1873–81: 116–18) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 [May 1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … had given birth to her first child on 9 April 1878 ( Allan 1967 s.v. ‘Hooker pedigree’). …
- … this letter, the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 May [1878] , and the letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 May 1878 . CD evidently wrote 19 April by mistake. CD had requested …
- … his letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 May [1878] . Richard Irwin Lynch was the foreman of …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 May 1878 and n. 3). CD had studied the inflection of …
- … plants , pp. 256–9). In his letter of 11 May 1878 , Thiselton-Dyer mentioned going away to …
- … to a list of plants sent from Kew on 25 March 1878, CD had received a plant of Rhipsalis …
- … provision tree). See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 May 1878 and n. 5. See letter from …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 May 1878 . Sydney Howard Vines had explained the loss of …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 20 [May 1878]
Summary
Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 20 [May 1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 124–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11518 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 20 [May 1878] …
- … 1873–81: 124–5) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 [May 1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 April 1878 and n. 1) had included the information that …
- … a gynophore or stalk that buried the ovary in the ground ( Nature , 5 April 1878, p. 446). …
- … the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 April 1878 , and by the day of the week mentioned …
- … in the date. In 1878, May was the only month in which the 20th fell on a Monday. The …
- … dated between 1 June 1877 and 13 February 1878, are in DAR 66: 83. Mimosa albida is a …
- … In his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 14 May 1878 , CD had offered to send a plant of Drosera …
- … in his letter to J. D. Hooker of 25 March [1878] that he had killed his specimen of Oxalis …
- … The plant had been sent on 14 February 1878 ( Outwards book , Archives, Royal Botanic …
- … glauca (tree tobacco) to Kew on 28 June 1878 ( Inwards book , Archives, Royal Botanic …
- … Araujia sericifera (common moth-vine or cruel plant) in January 1878 (see letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 January 1878 ). In his letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker of 25 March [1878] , CD reported that he had injured all his plants of Arachis …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 June 1878
Summary
Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.
Working hard on plant movements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 2 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11540 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 June 1878 …
- … 1873–81: 126–7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 June 1878 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 May [1878] ). In Movement in plants , p. 78, CD states …
- … his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 19 [May 1878]. Opuntia basilaris is the beavertail cactus. …
- … was published in the Economist , 1 June 1878, p. 640. It argued against a motion that was …
- … parliamentary debates 3d ser. vol. 241 (1878) col. 1464). The minister responsible for Kew …
- … on 3 June and returned on 8 August 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and letter from …
- … Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [11 August 1878] (DAR 219.1: 114)). Thiselton-Dyer’s …
- … had given birth to her first child in April 1878 ( Allan 1967 s.v. Hooker pedigree). An …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 June [1878]
Summary
Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.
Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 128–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11556 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 June [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 128–9) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 June [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 2 June 1878 . For CD’s observations of the leaves of …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 2 June 1878 and n. 5). Arachis hypogaea is the peanut; …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 [May 1878] and n. 11. Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer ; …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 2 June 1878 and n. 6. Joseph Dalton Hooker . A note by …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June [1878]
Summary
Thanks for seeds and plants.
News of Francis and Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 23 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11563 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 131–2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 June [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … 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 …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 June [1878] . For Thiselton-Dyer’s note on the items …
- … the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 June [1878] , n. 8. CD had requested seeds of more …
- … upon railway trains’, published in June 1878, contained the sentence: ‘The author was …
- … reference to Horace Darwin’s experiments (D. S. Galton 1878 –9, pp. 467 and 486). CD …
- … his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 20 [May 1878]; the Inwards book , Archives, Royal Botanic …
- … Gardens, Kew, records that they were received from CD on 28 June 1878. …
- … 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. …
- … Royal Geographical Society ( Thiselton-Dyer 1878 ). Francis Darwin was working with Julius …
- … and letter to Francis Darwin , [ c. 23 June 1878]). ‘Die merkwürdigsten Dinge, Sonderbar, …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 June [1878]
Summary
Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 25 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 133–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11565 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1878]
Summary
Movement and sensitivity of flower parts; relationship to cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 135–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11605 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 135–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 July [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1878 . A plant of Thalia dealbata (powdery …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). On 7 July 1878, CD began to investigate the mechanism …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] . For CD’s remarks on the similar mechanism in …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 July [1878]
Summary
Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 19 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 137–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11616 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 July [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 137–40) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 July [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1878 . Having closely observed flowers of Thalia …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1878] ). In his reply, Thiselton-Dyer had suggested that …
- … see letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1878 and nn. 6 and 7). In descriptions of …
- … to be buried in the ground (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 [May 1878] and n. 11). …
- … visiting family from 7 to 22 August 1878 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). In Climbing …
- … 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. …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1878 and n. 4. Quercus pannonica is a synonym of …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 June [1878] ). Thiselton-Dyer had evidently offered to …
- … had been unwell following the birth of her first child on 9 April 1878 (see letter to W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 [May 1878] and n. 9). Thiselton-Dyer had delivered a …
- … research’ at the Royal Geographical Society on 24 June 1878; he was revising it …
- … for publication ( Thiselton-Dyer 1878 ). There is an offprint in the Darwin Pamphlet …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 August [1878]
Summary
Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11637 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 August [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 141–3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Aug [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … 21 [and 22] January 1878 ). CD had been shown the positively heliotropic aerial roots of …
- … and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 July 1878 . CD had asked Thiselton-Dyer for a new …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 July [1878] ). The firm of William Barron & Son had …
- … 20–4 August 1877] and n. 4). See letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 May 1878 and n. 5. …
- … CD had visited Kew on 22 January 1878 ( letter to Asa Gray, …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 July [1878] and n. 6). John Smith was the curator of …
- … in his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 18 June [1878] and asked for seeds of other species of …
- … clover; letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 July 1878 ). Trifolium resupinatum is Persian clover. …
- … see letter from Francis Darwin, 24 and 25 July 1878 ; see also F. Darwin 1886 , p. 99). In …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 August [1878]
Summary
Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.
Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.
Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 144–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11675 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 August [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 144–5) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Aug [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 23 June [1878]. CD refers to Gaston de Saporta ; see Saporta …
- … 4 (1865): 5–264. Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1878. Lecture on plant-distribution as a …
- … field for geographical research. [Read 24 June 1878. ] Proceedings of …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 2 August [1878] . CD had asked Thiselton-Dyer for seeds of …
- … Darwin’s research on bloom (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 2 August [1878] and n. 6). …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 21 July 1878 . Müller had seen caterpillars of Callidryas …
- … the Royal Geographical Society of London 22 (1878–9): 412–45. …
- … letter to Francis Darwin of 14 [August 1878] , CD mentioned that he planned to write to …
- … distribution as a field for geographical research’, delivered on 24 June 1878 at the Royal …
- … Geographical Society ( Thiselton-Dyer 1878 ). CD’s annotated offprint is in the Darwin …
- … to his lecture in his now incomplete letter of 16 July 1878 ; see the letter to W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 July [1878] and n. 9. See also letter …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 2 August [1878] and n. 2. CD was making observations on …
- … Arachis hypogaea (peanut). See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 July [1878] . In his …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 30 August [1878]
Summary
Heliotropism in roots.
Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 146–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11680 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 30 August [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 146–7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Aug [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 August [1878] . The plant has not been identified, but …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 31 August [1878] ). CD had received plants of Bignonia …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 August [1878] and n. 5). Joseph Dalton Hooker sent CD …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 August [1878] ). CD and Francis Darwin had been investigating …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, [17 August 1878] ). Francis later noted that he had been …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1878]
Summary
Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 148–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11682 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 148–9) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Aug [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 30 August [1878] . CD had returned the plant as he was afraid of …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 30 August [1878] . CD had received Oxalis carnosa (a synonym of …
- … O. magellanica , fleshy sorrel) from Kew in February 1878 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 February 1878 and n. 2). …
- … this species was sent to CD on 4 September 1878 ( Outwards book , p. 470, Archives, Royal …
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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his …
- … scientific man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1878] ). Writing to Ernst Haeckel on …
- … plants.’ Movement in plants In the spring of 1878, Darwin started to focus on the …
- … come up arched’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 24 March [1878–80] ). While Darwin was studying the …
- … of apex’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [11 May 1878] ). Having found plants responsive to …
- … at my blunder’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 22 December [1878] ). Son abroad Darwin’s …
- … kind to him’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 June [1878] ). While Francis was away, Darwin …
- … work, I scribble to you ( letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] ). Two weeks later he wrote: ‘I …
- … to discuss it with’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 20 [July 1878] ). It is unclear why the …
- … reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] ): ‘The oats have only just begun to …
- … Francis wrote ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 17 July 1878] ), ‘a strong horizontal axis …
- … rather’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 3 August 1878] ). One day Francis observed that the …
- … out one’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] ). Sachs’s confidence was apparently …
- … him,’ he reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [22 June 1878] ). ‘Sachs doesn’t consider that …
- … all evils’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [24 and 25 July 1878] ). Babies and animals …
- … he added a week later ( letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] ). Darwin had of course observed …
- … have said a gee-gee’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 17 July [1878] ). On 12 September , Darwin …
- … will always do so’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 August [1878] ). Darwin remarked that a monkey …
- … in your house!’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 2 September [1878] ). More remarkable cases of …
- … of a thieving wasp’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 21 June 1878 ). An inspiration In …
- … ( letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand, 5 August 1878 ). Despite his many botanical …
- … to me quite ridiculous’ ( letter to John Price, 2 April [1878] ). When a wealthy businessman tried …
- … ( letter from Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, 28 April 1878 ). ‘What a wonderful change in the …
- … The Swiss botanist Arnold Dodel-Port announced on 12 June 1878 the first issue of an atlas with …
- … come together’ ( letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 18 June 1878 ). In countries where …
- … are without you’ (letters from Carl Kraus, [31?] January 1878 and 10 February 1878 ). Darwin …
- … been school-boys’ ( letter to Karl von Scherzer, 1 April 1878 ). More critics Closer …
- … matter’ ( letter from H. N. Ridley, [before 28 November 1878] ). Darwin received a copy of the …
- … care of himself ’ ( letter from J. B. Innes, 1 December 1878 ). Darwin did not think the Oxford …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
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Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
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Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5 April 1878 . Müller was a German naturalist …
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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- … specimen, both sides of which are reproduced, 29 January 1878 S. B. J. Skertchly's …
Power of movement in plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
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< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
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- … when he took his photographs. This one must be before August 1878, when it was reproduced as a …
- … copies in the Darwin archive say the photograph was taken in 1878. The latter date is accepted by …
- … Leonard wrote to his father from Brompton Barracks in April 1878 enclosing two photographs …
- … of the photograph at Down House that he took it in 1878. It was this photograph which …
- … date of creation undated; probably early 1878 computer-readable date c.1878-01-01 to c …
- … to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. Woodburytype reproduction of …
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…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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…
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- … son Francis worked in this laboratory in the summers of 1878 and 1879, he encountered some of the …
- … Movement in plants , p. 179. In May 1878, Darwin had pointed out the importance of …
- … his experiments on the function of bloom. By December 1878, Darwin was thinking about the …
- … accuracy ( letter from J. D. Cooper, 13 December 1878 ). The method would be expensive, so Darwin …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … experiments. Francis went to Germany in the summer of 1878 for more experience in physiological …
- … this to you’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [1 August 1878] ). The last years also saw Darwin …
- … and Earthworms , pp. 221–8). Darwin resumed contact in 1878. On receiving Darwin’s letter, …
- … at wormbs”’ ( letter from Mary Johnson, [after 22 July 1878] ). Edition complete …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Leonard Darwin to George Darwin, 8 February [1878] Darwin’s youngest son, Leonard (Lenny), …
1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing
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< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself. She and her husband, the lawyer…
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1.12 Marian Huxley, drawing
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< Back to Introduction Portrayals of Darwin by women in his social circle cannot be lumped together as the products of adoring amateurs. In 1878 he was sketched by Marian (‘Mady’) Huxley, who was then only in her late teens, but already a trained and…
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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- … A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, Murray was ready to print the second …
4.33 'Harper's Weekly', Bellew caricature
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< Back to Introduction In a page of comic drawings by Frank Bellew, ostensibly his ‘Sketches in the New York Aquarium’, yet another joke about Darwin’s simian connections makes an appearance. ‘The Chimpanzee’ sits on a fancy bed amid the straw…
4.30 'La Petite Lune', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction La Petite Lune was a sister paper of La Lune Rousse, and was published, edited and illustrated by André Gill, through 1878-9. It featured a series of caricatures titled ‘Les hommes illustrés’, to which this belongs. Gill again…
2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
