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
- … 21 July 1864 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and n. 22. In ‘Climbing …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 June 1864 ). In ‘ …
- … J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 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, 15 June [1864] …
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: 3 hits
- … sent CD a new supply of climbing plants (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 March 1864 ). …
- … book from Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 August 1864] and n. 6). …
- … J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1863] ); Oliver probably discussed it in a missing portion of the letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] , …
To Daniel Oliver 17 September [1864]
Summary
Glad that Oliver is to review John Scott’s paper in the Natural History Review (Scott 1864a). Apologises that his enclosed references (now missing) are so paltry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4615F |
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 31 March [1864]
Summary
Asks DO to give enclosed [letter?] from John Scott to Hooker.
JS’s work on orchid self-sterility; Acropera has 371250 seeds in one capsule.
Wishes something could be done for Scott.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 44 (EH 88206027) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4068 |
To Daniel Oliver 11 March [1864]
Summary
Struck with corresponding positions of tendrils and flower-stalks in Passiflora. Sends [W. E. Darwin’s] dissection drawings of earliest stages. Infers that tendril is a modified flower peduncle.
Requests DO look at mode of climbing in Tecoma.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4424 |
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 [c. 10 June 1864]
Summary
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [c. 10 June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4532 |
To Daniel Oliver 4 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 4 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4481 |
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 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 29 [July 1862]
Summary
Cares more for dimorphism now than for orchids. Today saw the three forms of Lythrum, which means there should be 18 different practicable crosses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 29 [July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 55 (EH 88206038) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3702 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 22 [March 1862] , and DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 1–7). There are a number of notes in DAR 27.2 recording the details of crossing experiments carried out by CD on this species in the summer of 1862; the earliest is dated 31 July 1862 (DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 7). CD’s paper on the three forms in Lythrum ( ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ ) was read before the Linnean Society of London on 16 June 1864. …
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