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 |
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 |
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 |
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
- … 10 April 1862 ), but subsequently decided against it (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1862 ). CD had intended to carry out experiments on the cleistogamic flowers of Viola and Campanula in the summer of 1860, but his attempts were frustrated (see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to J. D. Hooker, 7 June [1860] and 12 [ …
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
- … 10 of Variation , in which he included a section on variation in cultivated strawberries ( Variation 1: 351–4). Hooker had told CD that Oliver had reminded him of a ‘curious remark on sexualism of strawberries by an American … alluded to at length in [the] Technologist’ ( Wray 1861a ); see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] and n. 22. Wray 1861a was reprinted in the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette for 3 August 1861 ( Wray 1861b ), a copy of which CD kept in a separate parcel (see DAR 222 and DAR 75: 1–12; …
