From Daniel Oliver 14 June 1864
Royal Gardens Kew
14. VI. ’64
My dear Sir.
I shall be glad to do the little diagram as you request.—1 Have you read von Mohl’s “Bau und Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen”?2 I have not read it myself,—but he refers to it in his “Anaty. &c. of the Vegetable Cell”.3 when he refers to the “enigmatl” phenomena of twiners,—the internodes of which he describes as (when they have attained a certain age) beginning to curl so that the upper parts are “continually carried round in a circle like the hand of a clock,” &c. &c.
Have you—to spare—a copy of the photog. of wh. one reached Dr. Hooker a few days ago,—reminding him of Moses,4 &c. I shd. much value one.
Yours very sincerely | Dal. Oliver.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Mohl, Hugo von. 1827. Ueber den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen. Tübingen: Heinrich Laupp.
Mohl, Hugo von. 1851. Grundzüge der Anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle. Brunswick, Germany: F. Vieweg.
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Summary
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4534
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 27
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4534,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4534.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12