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 |
From Daniel Oliver [26 March 1863]
Summary
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863
Summary
Answers CD’s query on Primula longiflora and P. scotica.
Would like abstract of CD’s paper ["Two forms of Linum", Collected papers 2: 93–105] for Natural History Review.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4015 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1863
Summary
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4093 |
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 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 |
From Daniel Oliver 20 July 1863
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper is unsuitable for the Natural History Review.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4247 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver [27 March 1863]
Summary
Sends some specimens for CD.
Is busy with W. African Amomum, whose floral structure he discusses.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4328 |
From Daniel Oliver 27 November 1863
Summary
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4349 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 20 July 1863]
Summary
Gives a reference to a paper.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4366 |
From Daniel Oliver 17 February 1863
Summary
DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8770 |
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