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 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 July 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Alexander Dickson would like to know whether anyone has described the epidermal cells lining the pitcher of Cephalotus.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11048 |
From Daniel Oliver 16 September 1862
Summary
Envelope containing specimens (apparently mentioned in the letter from Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863 (S 4015)).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891G |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver [4–8 February 1862]
Summary
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–8 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2916 |
From Daniel Oliver 19 September 1860
Summary
CD’s observations on preference of Drosera for milk and nitrogenous fluids, and the effect of nitrate of ammonia are interesting. Asks whether CD is satisfied that the effect is not due to density of fluid or to a chemical irritant. His own observations suggest such possibilities.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2921 |
From Daniel Oliver 25 September 1860
Summary
His results with pure gum on Drosera spathulata entirely support CD’s opinion. Other observations on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 1–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2927 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 23 November 1860
Summary
Dr Hooker has given him CD’s memorandum on the fly-catcher.
Copies out extract from Curtis’ Botanical Magazine [On Apocynum androsæmifolium, 8 (1794): tab.]: 280 and gives a further reference in Erasmus Darwin’s The loves of plants [1789]. Suggests that they look at Apocynum.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 157a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2995A |
From Daniel Oliver [before 3 November 1861]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3039 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 8 October 1861]
Summary
Finds no trace of nectar in Stanhopea saccata.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3280 |
From Daniel Oliver 8 November 1861
Summary
Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 91: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3312 |
From Daniel Oliver 10 April 1862
Summary
Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.
Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Observations on Campanula dimorphism.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3502 |
From Daniel Oliver 23 April 1862
Summary
Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3515 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3546 |
From Daniel Oliver 28 July 1862
Summary
Sends orchids from W. H. Gower.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3668 |
From Daniel Oliver 4 September 1862
Summary
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3711 |
From Daniel Oliver 13 September 1862
Summary
Has given directions to save seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.
CD’s diagram of Lythrum salicaria is very remarkable. [See Collected papers 2: 107.]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 111 (ser. 2): 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3718 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1862
Summary
Discusses primrose ovules,
Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],
plant migrations;
Corydalis.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3722 |
From Daniel Oliver 25 November 1862
Summary
Informs CD of possible dimorphism of Epilobium angustifolium.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 111 (ser. 2): 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3828 |
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Oliver, Daniel | (49) |
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