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From Daniel Oliver   14 June 1864

Royal Gardens Kew

14. VI. ’64

My dear Sir.

I shall be glad to do the little diagram as you request.—1 Have you read von Mohl’s “Bau und Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen”?2 I have not read it myself,—but he refers to it in his “Anaty. &c. of the Vegetable Cell”.3 when he refers to the “enigmatl” phenomena of twiners,—the internodes of which he describes as (when they have attained a certain age) beginning to curl so that the upper parts are “continually carried round in a circle like the hand of a clock,” &c. &c.

Have you—to spare—a copy of the photog. of wh. one reached Dr. Hooker a few days ago,—reminding him of Moses,4 &c. I shd. much value one.

Yours very sincerely | Dal. Oliver.

Footnotes

In his letter of [c. 10 June 1864], CD had asked Oliver to draw a diagram to accompany his paper ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria, which was to be read at the meeting of the Linnean Society on 16 June 1864.
The reference is to Ueber den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen (On the structure and coiling of tendril and twining plants) by Hugo von Mohl (Mohl 1827). An annotated copy of Mohl 1827 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 590–4).
Mohl’s work Grundzüge der Anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle (Mohl 1851) was translated by Arthur Henfrey as Principles of the anatomy and physiology of the vegetable cell (Henfrey trans. 1852). Oliver refers to Henfrey trans. 1852, p. 157. An annotated copy of Henfrey trans. 1852 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 589–90).

Bibliography

Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.

Mohl, Hugo von. 1827. Ueber den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen. Tübingen: Heinrich Laupp.

Mohl, Hugo von. 1851. Grundzüge der Anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle. Brunswick, Germany: F. Vieweg.

‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]

Summary

Will be glad to do diagram for CD;

asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4534
From
Daniel Oliver
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kew
Source of text
DAR 173: 27
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4534,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4534.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12

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