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 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: 7 hits
- … by the relationship to the letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 , and to the letter …
- … from Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1862 . Letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 . See letter …
- … from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 ), but subsequently decided against it (see letter from …
- … Society paid Fitch’s 10 s . bill (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1862 ). North …
- … Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 . CD refers to ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ . On the letter …
- … Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 , CD wrote ‘short-styled’ above Oliver’s ‘ long-styled ’ (see CD annotations). Oliver repeated his conclusions without modification in [Oliver] 1862c, p. 237. See also letter …
- … Oliver, 9 April [1861] . CD described this phenomenon in Variation 2: 58–9. [Oliver] 1862c. See letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 …
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1862
Summary
Discusses primrose ovules,
Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],
plant migrations;
Corydalis.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3722 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Oliver (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 , and letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [ …
- … April 1862 and n. 9). See letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 . Oliver refers to …
- … Oliver, 15 April [1862] ). Oliver repeated his observations, apparently without modification, in ibid. , p. 237. Oliver 1862b . See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . Oliver refers to those who, like Louis Agassiz , advocated multiple centres of creation to account for sporadic or disjunct species (see Rehbock 1983 , p. 152, and Browne 1983 , pp. 138–44). Oliver had offered to acquire for CD specimens of Primula farinosa (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 …
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1877
Summary
Discusses the cleistogamous flowers of Oxalis. Thinks they may not be truly cleistogamous but merely arrested or imperfectly developed normal flowers.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10890 |
To Daniel Oliver [before 11 June 1862]
Summary
Asa Gray approves of Orchids; his work on American species confirms CD’s findings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [before 11 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 33 (EH 88206016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3583 |
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 8 June [1862]
Summary
Describes floral anatomy of a Catasetum sent by DO.
Has gone on from orchids to studying insect agency in Pelargonium.
His doubts on the worth of publishing Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 8 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 32 (EH 88206015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3592 |
From John Scott 6 January 1863
Summary
Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.
So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.
Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.
Scott’s personal history.
Acropera capsule grows.
Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.
Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.
Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.
Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 81, 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3904 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 9, letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 September [1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
- … from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 ). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, …
- … letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD wrote that despite his hard work at seeking the meaning of the ‘two sets of very different stamens’, he was ‘shamefully beaten’. See n. 1, above; the specimens sent to CD by Scott did not thrive (see letter to Daniel Oliver, …
From J. D. Hooker 9 June 1862
Summary
Oliver has written able paper on dimorphism for Natural History Review [n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
CD’s account of Viola is novel and interesting.
Has finished Cameroon mountain plants.
Jury work at exhibition.
Domestic problems – wife is ill, no cook, etc.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 40–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3593 |
From Arthur Rawson [6 April 1863]
Summary
Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.
Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.
Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.
Author: | Arthur Rawson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4074 |
To J. H. Balfour 21 October [1864]
Summary
Thanks Balfour for Corydalis seed
and sends a photo of himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 21 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5251 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [June 1863?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3367 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 17 May [1865]
Summary
Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.
Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4835 |
To John Lubbock 23 [February 1863]
Summary
CD’s comments on JL’s paper [first part of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3939 |
To Robert Caspary 21 February [1866]
Summary
Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 21 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5012 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [5 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4140 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865]
Summary
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4825 |
To W. E. Darwin [10 May 1863]
Summary
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [10 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4151 |
To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [17–24 March 1863]
Summary
Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [17–24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4069 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1862]
Summary
Has received Melastoma and Vanilla.
Has seen again the two sets of plants of Heterocentron raised from two lots of pollen from same flower – a marvellous difference in stature.
"But oh Lord what will become of my book on variation: I am involved in a multiplicity of experiments."
Observations on Viola.
CD’s fancied dimorphism of Oxalis is all a confounded mistake; only great variability in length of pistils.
Found Henslow’s life [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will think it dull.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3575 |
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