From Daniel Oliver [15–16 October 1860]
Summary
Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15–16 Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2623 |
To Daniel Oliver [10 October 1860]
Summary
Delighted to try experiments on Drosera spathulata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [10 Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 13 (EH 88205997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2929 |
To Daniel Oliver 5 October [1860]
Summary
A poser: carbonate of soda produces inflection rather than contraction in Drosera. Possible solution: glands at end of hairs absorb as well as secrete. Fascinated by currents in cells after inflection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 5 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 14 (EH 88205998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2939 |
To Daniel Oliver 12 [October 1860]
Summary
Requests DO apply carbonate of ammonia to sensitive hair of Dionaea and measure reaction time. Wants to compare Drosera and Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 12 [Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 16 (EH 88206000) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2946 |
To Daniel Oliver 12 [October 1860]
Summary
Wants to amend request [see 2946] if DO wants to try carbonate of ammonia experiment. Put third drop on midrib of leaf [of Dionaea] or inside upper side.
Sorry DO already has Origin. Would he like Journal of Travels [Journal of researches]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 12 [Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Journal of researches (1860) REF COLLECTION K SMITH WOODWARD DAR) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2946A |
To Daniel Oliver 14 October [1860]
Summary
Has examined nearly all British orchids.
Hooker’s error on Listera.
Change in colour and consistency of Drosera hair glands after leaf inflection. Analogous structures in Dionaea. Requests Oliver confirm these observations on live plants, of which he has none.
In a muddle over the effects of salts on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 14 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 17 (EH 88206001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2949 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 October [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information and extracts.
M. A. Curtis, quoted in ["Dionaea"] Penny encyclopedia [(1837) 8: 508], gives the only full account of Dionaea.
Concurs in DO’s explanation of Dionaea footstalk cells, which CD took for stomata.
Is using carbonate of ammonia as a substitute for flies and colour change in glands as index of action on Drosera. Suspects other nitrogenous compounds do not act till decomposed into carbonate of ammonia. Beginning to write Drosera paper. Action of nitrogenous compounds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 17 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 18 (EH 88206002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2951 |
To Daniel Oliver [31? October 1860]
Summary
The best way to see cell movement in Drosera hair, is to cut off those lately inflected over a fly, sketch shape of red matter under high power, and repeat after one or two minutes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [31? Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 19 (EH 88206003) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2952 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 October [1860]
Summary
Will take Natural History Review, but cannot write for it.
Has mass of notes on irritability in orchids,
but he ought to work on Variation.
Drosera was an interlude while away from home. Expectations for effect of carbonate of ammonia on Dionaea. The important phenomenon in Drosera is the segregation of the red fluid within the leaf, not action of carbonate of ammonia on the red fluid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 20 (EH 88206004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2956 |
To Daniel Oliver 23 [October 1860]
Summary
Compliments DO on his wealth of information.
Henrietta’s relapse.
Thanks for extract on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 23 [Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 21 (EH 88206005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2959 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 23 October 1860]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 23 Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2971 |
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