From Daniel Oliver 25 September 1860
Summary
His results with pure gum on Drosera spathulata entirely support CD’s opinion. Other observations on insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2927 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … 1–47. Bromfield, William Arnold. 1856. Flora Vectensis: being a systematic description of …
- … 1824]). Edward Frederick Kelaart published a flora of Gibraltar in 1846 ( Kelaart 1846 ). …
- … Giles Munby lived in Algeria and published a flora of the native plants of the country in …
- … Wentworth Chapman was the author of a flora of the southern states of America ( Chapman …
- … Pamplin. Chapman, Alvan Wentworth. 1860. Flora of the Southern United States … arranged …
- … York. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1855–60. Flora Tasmaniæ. Pt 3 of The botany of the Antarctic …
- … London. Kelaart, Edward Frederick. 1846. Flora Calpensis. Contributions to the botany and …
- … a fly was as follows I quite look to working up one or two spinous Floras I think of, …
- … as one, the Flora (Florula! ) of Aden upon wh. D r . Anderson is just now engaged …
- … to the Linn: Journal It is a very spiny Flora. Then Delile, for Egypt. perhaps Kelaart, …
- … important. To contrast I would take our own Flora,—that of Arctic circle (easy)—upon wh. D …
- … Drosera see a footnote in D r . Bromfield’s ’ Flora Vectensis ‘ p. 56—“The glands x x x x …
To Daniel Oliver 20 December [1860]
Summary
Requests date of [C. S.] Rafinesque[-Schmaltz], New flora of North America, pt 1 [1836].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 20 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 28 (EH 88206011) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3027 |
From Daniel Oliver 19 December 1874
Summary
Sends Utricularia montana and Byblis species.
Drosera census numbers 100 species.
Genlisea distinguished from Utricularia.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 112–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9765 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … and Mueller, Ferdinand von. 1863–78. Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of …
- … the Australian territory. 7 vols. London: Lovell Reeve and Company. Flora …
- … Capensis : Flora Capensis: being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape …
- … 662 ( Genera plantarum ), Bentham 1863–78 , 2: 453 ( Flora Australiensis ), and Harvey and …
- … Sonder 1859–65, 1: 75 ( Flora Capensis ). William Henry Harvey and Otto Wilhelm Sonder …
From Daniel Oliver 16 December 1864
Summary
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4718 |
From Daniel Oliver [before February 1868]
Summary
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824F |
To Daniel Oliver 20 [February 1863]
Summary
Having trouble understanding laws of phyllotaxy in order to grasp Hugh Falconer’s objections.
L. C. Treviranus on Primula [see 3980] misses the "prettiness" of the adaptations.
John Scott says P. scotica is never dimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 20 [Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 41 (EH 88206024) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4052 |
From Daniel Oliver 22 January 1863
Summary
The number of "aquatic" flowers is reduced if one considers only those that expand under water.
Lecturing at Norwich.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3937 |
To Daniel Oliver 18 December 1874
Summary
Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9763F |
To Daniel Oliver 1 June [1867]
Summary
Asks DO to identify a plant grown from earth adhering to the foot of a woodcock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 1 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3587 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 3 November 1861]
Summary
List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 225–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3039 |
To Daniel Oliver 12 [April 1862]
Summary
DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.
DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].
CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".
Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.
Organisation of CD’s notes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 12 [Apr 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3504 |
From Daniel Oliver 25 November 1862
Summary
Informs CD of possible dimorphism of Epilobium angustifolium.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 111 (ser. 2): 61–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3828 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … angustifolium are described in the English Floras—a short & long capsuled form. — But my …
From Daniel Oliver [15–16 October 1860]
Summary
Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15–16 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2623 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in the botanical information section in Flora, oder allgemeine botanische Zeitung pt 1 ( …
To Daniel Oliver 15 April [1862]
Summary
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4097 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of …
To Daniel Oliver 11 September [1860]
Summary
Requests observations on Drosera and Dionaea,
and asks DO to look up Buchanan and Wight on insectivorous plants ["Conspectus of Indian Utricularia", Hooker’s J. Bot. 1 (1849): 372–4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 9 (EH 88205993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2913 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Buchanan and Wight were specialists in the flora of India. The point about which CD was …
To Daniel Oliver 24 July [1862]
Summary
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 24 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3664 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John. 1859. A synopsis of the British flora arranged according to the natural orders. …
To Daniel Oliver 30 November [1861]
Summary
Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.
Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?
O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 30 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 2 (EH 88205986) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3333 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … To account for the European character of the flora of Madeira and for the presence of …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Oliver, Daniel |
Suggested reading
Summary
Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 28 hits
- … & imported well worth studying probably— Thunberg Flora Japonica [Thunberg 1784] in …
- … Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel Isl d . [Babington 1839 …
- … of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ].— Flora of St Helena 1825 [A. Watson 1825] in …
- … Himallaya & high Peru [Meyen 1836].— Phillippi on Flora of Sicily [Philippi 1836].— …
- … 1781]. Linn. on insects [Linnaeus 1781b]. Forsskahl on Flora of insects [Forsskahl 1781]. Avelin on …
- … trees of America [Downing 1845] 24 th Hopkirks Flora Anomala [Hopkirk 1817] July 8 …
- … ]. (since I read up old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy …
- … Hornschuck Essay on the Sporting of Plants. in the ‘Flora’ or separate [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in …
- … 97 [DAR *128: 169] Wahlenberg Flora Suecica [Wahlenberg 1824–6]— most curious …
- … Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees [Ramond de Carbonnières 1799–1801 …
- … 50 c. [Goethe 1837] [DAR *128: 150] Heers Flora Helvetica Tertiaria, translated …
- … [Pitton de Tournefort 1718]. skimmed 27. Gmelin Flora Siberica [Gmelin 1747–69] 1855. …
- … Primitiæ floræ sarnicæ; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, …
- … Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1836. Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln. Annalen der Wien …
- … 119: 17b Forsskahl, Jonas Gustav. 1781. The flora of insects. In Linnaeus, ed., Select …
- … 119: 17a Gmelin, Johann Georg. 1747–69. Flora Sibirica sive historia plantarum …
- … 119: 22b Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica . Pt 1 of The botany of the …
- … Library.] 128: 8 Hopkirk, Thomas. 1817. Flora Anomoia. A general view of the …
- … Friedrich. 1848. Ueber Ausartung der Pflanzen. Flora 31: 17–28; 33–44; 50–64; 66–8. *128: 177 …
- … London. 119: 18b Leidy, Joseph. 1853. A flora and fauna within living animals. …
- … 128: 13 Michaux, François André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana . 2 vols. Paris. *119: …
- … 163 Philippi, Rudolph Armandus. 1836. Ueber die Flora Siciliens, im Vergleiche zu den …
- … natural history of the Himalayan mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere . 2 vols. London. …
- … and physick. To which is added the calendar of flora . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11a …
- … . London. 128: 6 Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784. Flora Japonica . Lipsiae. *119: 6v. …
- … 21b Torrey, John and Gray, Asa. 1838–43. A flora of North America: containing …
- … Zurich. *128: 169 ——. 1824–6. Flora Suecica . Upsalla. *128: 169 Walker, …
- … *119: 19v.; 119: 16a Watson, Alexander. 1825. Flora Sta Helenica . St Helena. *119: 7v …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Darwin returns the manuscript of Hooker’s On the Flora of Australia , which he has proofread. …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 6 hits
- … it in Plants. I have the greatest curiosity about the alpine Flora of the United States and I have …
- … and hearty admiration. [Your paper on the Statistics of the flora of the northern United States] …
- … and flatter myself I now appreciate the character of your Flora… One of your conclusions makes me …
- … I presume he has been urging you to finish your great Flora, before you do anything else. Now, I …
- … GRINDING AWAY: 1888 In which Gray grinds away at his Flora before suffering a stroke and …
- … 212 My dear Hooker…I grind away at [my] ‘Flora’ but, like the mills of the gods, I grind slowly, …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
Summary
< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and autodidact, with a special interest in mosses; his Flora of Warwickshire (1891) was based on …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Marianne North
Summary
Marianne North was born in Hastings where her father became a Liberal MP. Her family supported Marianne’s attempts at singing and painting as suitable activities for a Victorian lady. After her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began…
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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Essay: What is Darwinism?
Summary
—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … himself a single problem–namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for? . . . …
Biogeography
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most vivid …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
Summary
Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. This …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Dining at Down House
Summary
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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- … excitement of South American cities, cultures, geography, flora and fauna) Darwin complains to his …
The Letters
Summary
Darwin’s correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s…
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- … who provided him with observations on the fauna, flora, and peoples of the world. The correspondence …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
1.11 Laura Russell, oil
Summary
< Back to Introduction This little oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Laura Russell, daughter of Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. She was married to Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock; he was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder…
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- … 1869, when Laura was eight months pregnant with her daughter Flora. They visited Down House several …
Search tips
Summary
In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…
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- … care. We have manually coded some group identifiers (“flora” eg), index terms such as people, …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
Summary
Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … work. When Darwin had read the introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he …
Origin
Summary
Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … to Hooker. Indeed, when Hooker was writing his essay on the flora of Australia in December 1858, he …
