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From Daniel Oliver   [28 January – 8 February 1864]

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Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Jan – 8 Feb 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 157.2: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4398F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [27 January 1864] , and the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [8 February 1864] . …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn.  19–22. Sympodium: ‘An apparent …
  • … flowers, see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [27 January 1864] and n.  20. See also letter from …

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

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  • … 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] …

From Daniel Oliver   14 June 1864

Summary

Will be glad to do diagram for CD;

asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 June 1864
Classmark:  DAR 173: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4534

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To Daniel Oliver   18 March [1864]

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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

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  • … 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]

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 16 September 1864 . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 16 September 1864 . CD …
  • … 1864] , and the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 September [1864] . See also the brief review …

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

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  • … D.  Hooker, 5 March [1863] , and this volume, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 April [1864] ). …

From Daniel Oliver   [1 April 1864]

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References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Apr 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 157.2: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4443

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  • … Dalton Hooker’s visit to the Isle of Wight (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 April 1864] …
  • … 285–6. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [ 2 April 1864] . Oliver refers to the postscript …
  • J.  D.  Hooker, [2]9 June 1863  and n.  3, and this volume, letter to Daniel Oliver, 15 June [1864] . …

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

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  • … 1864] and n.  3). Letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 29 March 1864 . CD probably enclosed the …

From Daniel Oliver   [before 31 March 1864]

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Encloses memorandum on tendrils. Nature of tendrils in Modecca.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 31 Mar 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 157.2: 81, 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4417

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  • … from Oliver. See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 31 [May 1864] and n.  5. Oliver refers to …
  • … of tendrils, see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn.  19–23. Oliver refers …

From Daniel Oliver   18 June 1864

Summary

Thanks for photograph.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 June 1864
Classmark:  DAR 173: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4539

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  • … and n.  3). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 22 [May 1864] and n.  16. Oliver refers to ‘ …

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

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  • … peduncles. See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn.  19 and 20, and …
  • … were derived (see letters to J.  D.  Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn.  19–23, and [8  …

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

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  • … vol.  12, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 , and letter from Richard Spruce, …

To Daniel Oliver   [c. 10 June 1864]

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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

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  • … enclosed with the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 10 June [1864] . CD’s paper ‘Three forms of …

From Daniel Oliver   27 November 1863

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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

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  • … vol.  12, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 April [1864] . A strip of paper evidently containing …

To Daniel Oliver   4 May [1864]

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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

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  • … in Passifloraceae, see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [27 January 1864] and n.  20, and the …

To Daniel Oliver   15 June [1864]

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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

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  • … organs’. See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 2 June [1864] and n.  5. CD refers to Ueber …

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

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  • 1864  and n.  20, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from H.  F.  Hance, 10 May 1863 , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …

To Daniel Oliver   29 [July 1862]

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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

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  • 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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