From Daniel Oliver 12 October 1874
Summary
Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9675 |
To Daniel Oliver 14 October 1874
Summary
Thanks him for specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9679 |
To Daniel Oliver 19 October [1874]
Summary
Returns insectivorous plants to Kew, with questions about their range. Most species seem to have remarkably confined ranges.
Asks for a Bengal Aldrovanda leaf so that he can see whether it differs from the German species.
Roridula interested him extremely.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9686 |
From Daniel Oliver 20 October 1874
Summary
Sends information about Indian and Australian species of Aldrovanda, Roridula, and Byblis.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 106–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9689 |
To Daniel Oliver 18 December 1874
Summary
Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9763F |
From Daniel Oliver 19 December 1874
Summary
Sends Utricularia montana and Byblis species.
Drosera census numbers 100 species.
Genlisea distinguished from Utricularia.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 112–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9765 |
From Daniel Oliver 24 December 1874
Summary
Sends capsules with results from Genlisea specimens and fragments of Polypompholyx.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
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