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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |