To Daniel Oliver 15 April [1862]
Summary
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4097 |
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 July [1862]
Summary
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 24 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3664 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 June [1862] ). CD probably refers to the bird’s-eye primrose, Primula farinosa ; having failed to supply CD with specimens of this species during the previous season (see Correspondence vol. 9), Oliver had expressed a hope in April 1862 that he would be able to do so in the coming season, and had promised to write to let CD know (see letters from Daniel Oliver , 10 April 1862 and 14 …
To Daniel Oliver 8 June [1862]
Summary
Describes floral anatomy of a Catasetum sent by DO.
Has gone on from orchids to studying insect agency in Pelargonium.
His doubts on the worth of publishing Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 8 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 32 (EH 88206015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3592 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 May 1862 . When CD suggested to John Murray that he might publish Orchids , he expressed some of his own doubts about the advisability of doing so (see Correspondence vol. 9, letters to John Murray, 21 September [1861] and 24 September [1861] ); he wrote to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 September [1861] ): ‘Heaven knows whether it will not be a dead failure’. CD had begun crossing experiments with different varieties of pelargoniums on 11 …
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