From J. D. Hooker 19 March 1877
Summary
Oliver cannot, as CD has requested, hunt for trimorphic flowers in the Herbarium’s collection of Oxalis specimens. He would help Frank if he comes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 80–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10898 |
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 Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
To Daniel Oliver 13 March 1877
Summary
Discusses possible cleistogamic flowers in Oxalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10891F |
To J. D. Hooker 20 March [1877]
Summary
CD apologises for his burdensome request of Oliver.
Criticises JDH’s notice on Forsythia, which JDH said was dioecious. Forsythia sent to CD from Kew was heterostylous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 437–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10906 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 January 1877
Summary
JDH recounts discussion at Royal Society over Günther’s paper on distribution and affinities of gigantic tortoises ["Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises, Parts III and IV", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 25 (1876–7): 506–7]. Huxley suggests they are Miocene relics.
Royal Society will publish Frank’s Dipsacus paper [but see 10971 and 11073].
Thiselton-Dyer will review Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 77–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10817 |
From George Bentham [after 12 July 1877]
Summary
Answers CD’s query on "bloom".
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11051 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to George Bentham, 12 July 1877 . In apricis et maritimis : exposed to the sun or sea (Latin). Phyllodineous or phyllodinous: an expanded petiole funtions as a leaf-blade, the true leaf-blade being absent or reduced in size ( OED ). Gypsophila is a genus in the carnation family (now Caryophyllaceae); Cruciferae (now Brassicaceae) is the mustard and cabbage family. Daniel Oliver . …
To Daniel Oliver 1 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks W. H. Fitch for drawing for the Primula paper. Death of experimental plants delays publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 1 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 7 (EH 88205991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3133 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Daniel Oliver, 23 March [1861] ). CD read a paper on the dimorphic condition of Primula at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London in November 1861. Although P. farinosa is not mentioned in the paper, it is included in the revised and augmented version subsequently published in Forms of flowers (1877). …
To Gaston de Saporta 31 January 1878
Summary
Has sent GdeS’s drawing to Hooker. He, Oliver, and Thiselton-Dyer have been perplexed by it.
L. Lesquereux’s discoveries in the Cincinnati Lower Silurian beds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11341 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
