To Daniel Oliver 24–5 March [1863]
Summary
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 24–5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4059 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 13 [March 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … 5 March [1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [24 March 1863] . Letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [15 March 1863] . See also letter from J. D. …
- … see for example the letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 ). CD carried out crossing …
- … 1863, are in DAR 108: 165. See also letter to Daniel Oliver, [12 April 1863] and n. …
- … of the Vandeae (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n. 14). See letter …
- … 3. See letter from Daniel Oliver, [26 March 1863] . See letter to J. …
- … Hooker, [24 March 1863] . ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ . See letter from J. D. …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 March 1863] . CD refers to the tissue …
- … D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n. 19. See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 …
- … Kew, through Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and …
- … 1863] ). CD was interested in Nepenthes as one of a few unrelated genera in which leaves were developed into pitcher-like structures; such cases of ‘Similar & peculiar organs in beings far remote in the scale of nature’ presented what he considered a difficulty for the theory of natural selection ( Natural selection , pp. 374–5; see also Notebooks , p. 440; Correspondence vol. 2, letter …
To Daniel Oliver 28 March [1863]
Summary
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 43 (EH 88206026) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4063 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 24–5 March [1863] , and letter from Daniel …
- … 29 July 1864) . See letter to Daniel Oliver, 24–5 March [1863] , and letter from Daniel …
- … Oliver, [26 March 1863] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 March 1863] and n. 10. The …
- … in DAR 108: 165 v. See letter from Daniel Oliver, [26 March 1863] and n. 3. The reference …
- … Oliver, [27 March 1863] . See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and …
- … of Amomum , on which he was working (see letter from Daniel Oliver, [27 March 1863] ). …
- … See letter to Daniel Oliver, 24–5 March [1863] and n. 6. In 1864, CD obtained information …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [28 March 1863] ; see also n. 2, below. See letter to Daniel Oliver, …
To Daniel Oliver 18 July [1863]
Summary
Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 18 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4244 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] . …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Daniel Oliver, 20 July 1863 . The …
- … has not been found, but see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and n. …
- … 2. See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and n. 2. Hildebrand 1863a . …
- … Natural History ( Hildebrand 1863b ; see letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] ). …
- … See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and nn. 5 and 6. …
- … 1863, are in DAR 70: 114; he recorded successfully pollinating two flowers. See also ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , p. 153 ( Collected papers 2: 150). See letter …
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 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … visited CD at Down House on 22 March 1863 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 March …
- … specimens each of P. scotica and P. farinosa on 6 January 1863 (see letter from John …
- … references relating to phyllotaxy in his letter of 17 February 1863 . The reference is …
- … this letter and the letters from Daniel Oliver , 17 February 1863 and 27 February 1863 . …
- … to Hugh Falconer . See letter from Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 and n. 3. …
- … Scott, 6 January 1863 ). See also letter from John Scott, 17 December [1862] ( …
- … in the month (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863) . CD’s annotated copy …
To Daniel Oliver 28 [November 1863]
Summary
Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 28 [Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4350 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … this letter and the letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 . letter from Daniel …
- … pp. 123–8. See letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 . In Orchids , pp. 335–9, CD …
- … Oliver, 27 November 1863 . See letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 and nn. 8–10. …
- … on Fumariaceae, see the letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 and n. 8. CD began …
- … see DAR 111: A5–12. See also letter to Asa Gray, 31 May [1863] and n. 19. Some of CD’s …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] and n. 24). He made additional observations in 1863 ( …
To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
To Daniel Oliver 18 March [1864]
Summary
Thanks for information on Tecoma.
Cannot believe DO’s statement about Catasetum; is sure C. tridentatum sets seeds in its native country.
CD erred on Acropera, but how is it naturally fertilised?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4430 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … vol. 11, letter from Edward Bradford, 31 July 1863 , and letter from H. F. …
- … he had inquired about in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] and n. 6, and the …
- … 23 [June 1863] ); Oliver probably discussed it in a missing portion of the letter from …
- … 1863 has been found. CD later borrowed the book from Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to …
- … See letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] and n. 2. CD refers to Beer 1863 , which …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to P. H. Gosse, 2 June [1863] ). However, he eventually …
- … 1863 , and ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , p. 154 ( Collected papers 2: 151)); however, see also letter …
- … and letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). See also CD’s notes on Beer 1863 in …
- … 1863 , p. 22: ‘during three years he [Beer] tried in vain to fertilise Catasetum, but on one occasion, by placing only the viscid disc of a pollinium within the stigma, a ripe fruit was produced’. CD then added: ‘but it may be asked, Did the seeds contain embryos? ’. He believed that C. tridentatum (a synonym of C. macrocarpum , the jumping orchid) was the male form of an orchid that also had female and hermaphrodite forms (see letter …
To Daniel Oliver [before 27 November 1863]
Summary
Recommends Wyman’s short notice ["Report on Dr Jeffries Wyman’s experiment on the cause of contractility in vegetable tissues"] in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 (1852–7): 167.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [before 27 Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 53 (EH 88206036) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4327 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1863 , and the following letter). …
- … to articles (see, for example, letters from Daniel Oliver , 22 January 1863 and …
- … this letter and the letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 . CD refers to Jeffries …
- … 1863 ). Joseph Dalton Hooker’s son William Henslow Hooker had been suffering from scarlet fever (see letter …
To Daniel Oliver 20 [January 1863]
Summary
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3776 |
To Daniel Oliver 13 July [1864]
Summary
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 13 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4564 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] , and letter from Daniel …
- … 1863 ). CD was interested in the movements of contraction and curling of the outer walls of the pods that accompanied this process (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … 1863 , and CD’s note in DAR 157.2: 96). Mohl 1827 . Hugo von Mohl’s account of homologies is discussed in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 48–9. An annotated copy of Mohl 1827 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 590–4). See letter …
To Daniel Oliver [22 July 1864]
Summary
Will DO observe whether leaf [of Nepenthes] with pitcher ever wound round a stick? CD’s plant is improving.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [22 July 1864] |
| Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection); in September 2020 owned by ZHANG, Lun Xia (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4566 |
To Daniel Oliver [12 April 1863]
Summary
Working on monstrous Primula. Is ovule anatropous as Asa Gray says, or amphitropous? Does he know natural path of pollen tubes in Primula. Can the tube enter the ovule by the chalaza?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [12 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 46 (EH 88206029) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4083 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 February [1864]
Summary
Sends Hermann Crüger’s paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for publication.
"Boasts" of confirmation that sexes are separate in Catasetum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4410 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 June [1864]
Summary
L. H. Palm [Über das Winden der Pflanzen (1827)] is better on climbing plants than H. von Mohl [Über den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen (1827)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 15 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4536 |
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
To Daniel Oliver 13 October [1862]
Summary
Requests Linum, for dimorphism study.
Reviewer of Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6]is correct about the organisation of the book; he wonders who the reviewer is.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020), 261.10: 66 (EH 88206049) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3758 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Asa Gray, 21 June 1858 ). CD also refers to Vaucher 1841 , 1: 143; there is an annotated copy of this work in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 812–15). CD’s initial notes on various members of the Fumariaceae, dated May and June 1858, are in DAR 76: 13–18; further notes, dated 1861 and 1863, …
To Daniel Oliver 23 [November 1862]
Summary
Examined Epilobium 20 or 30 years ago at Shrewsbury. In a flash remembered it as dimorphic, but had forgotten its name.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 23 [Nov 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 57 (EH 88206040) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3819 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ); CD wished to borrow the volume since it contained part of a paper on the genus Linum ( Planchon 1847–8 ) that he needed to consult. CD cited Planchon 1847–8 in ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ , p. 81 ( Collected papers 2: 103–4), which was written between 11 and 21 December 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II)), and read before the Linnean Society on 5 February 1863. …
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| Oliver, Daniel |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
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…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The Project was contacted by the owner of an important Darwin letter that contains a rare instance …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 1 hits
- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
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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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's …
Science, Work and Manliness
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels …
Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
Summary
On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
Inheritance
Summary
It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
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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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
Climbing Plants
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment A monograph by which to work …
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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
