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 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 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 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 |
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 [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 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 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 |
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 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 15 December [1864]
Summary
Requests addresses of J. E. Planchon, W. F. Hofmeister and M. J. Schleiden so he can send them copies of Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 62 (EH 88206045) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4716 |
From Daniel Oliver [28 January – 8 February 1864]
Summary
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 18 February 1864
Summary
Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4411 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 31 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 31 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 81, 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4417 |
From Daniel Oliver [17 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4418 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1864
Summary
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4425 |
From Daniel Oliver [1 April 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4443 |
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 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 21 July 1864
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4571 |
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