To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 January [1880]
Summary
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12431 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [after 23 November 1880]
Summary
CD may not mean same thing as WTT-D by absorbent pegs in Abronia.
F. O. Bower’s paper on Welwitschia [germination] [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 21 (1881): 15–30] will appear in January.
Has observed earthworms for CD: they do not draw Robinia leaves into burrows by the petioles.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12849 |
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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 January [1880]
Summary
Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 April 1880
Summary
Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12576 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12424 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 November [1880]
Summary
WTT-D’s suggestion about absorbent function of pegs in Abronia suggests origin of pegs in Welwitschia, which deeply interests CD. Previously could not see how pegs became large enough to be of mechanical use. Now thinks tissue between hypocotyl and radicle absorbs fluid, which would favour rise of peg to expose larger surface.
Rejects German contempt for investigating use of organs.
Asks WTT-D to observe how worms draw Robinia leaves into burrows.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 209–11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12843 |
To Asa Gray 19 April 1880
Summary
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12582 |
To W. E. Darwin 23 [November 1880]
Summary
Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.
Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 23 [Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12848 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 31 December 1880
Summary
Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].
Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.
Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12958A |
To Asa Gray 19 January 1880
Summary
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12433 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 December 1880
Summary
On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 507–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12927 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
