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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

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

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

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

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

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

From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   11 May 1878

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Summary

WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].

S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.

Heliotropism in aerial roots.

Frank Darwin’s work.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 May 1878
Classmark:  DAR 209.8: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11503

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

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

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

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

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

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

From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   [27 June 1878]

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Summary

Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [27 June 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 209.14: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11571

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

From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   16 July 1878

Summary

Sends specimens.

Sensitive plants.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 July 1878
Classmark:  DAR 178: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11612

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

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

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

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
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