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From Daniel Oliver   8 April 1867

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Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Apr 1867
Classmark:  DAR 173: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5494

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 5 April [1867] ). John Gilbert Baker was an assistant in the Kew herbarium; he published on the botany of North Yorkshire, including Hieracium , in Baker and Nowell 1854  …

From Daniel Oliver   27 November 1863

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Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,

and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Nov 1863
Classmark:  DAR 173: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4349

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  • 1854  was related to a paper he read on the mode of dehiscence of the pods of Pentaclethra macrophylla (African-oil-bean), a legume from Fernando Po, before the Linnean Society of London on 19 November 1863 ( Oliver 1863e ). In the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [ …

From Daniel Oliver   [1 April 1864]

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References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Apr 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 157.2: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4443

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, [2]9 June 1863  and n.  3, and this volume, letter to Daniel Oliver, 15 June [1864] . See Léon 1858 , p.  352, for his reference to Germain de Saint-Pierre 1854 . …

To Daniel Oliver   13 October [1862]

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Requests Linum, for dimorphism study.

Reviewer of Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6]is correct about the organisation of the book; he wonders who the reviewer is.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  13 Oct [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020), 261.10: 66 (EH 88206049)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3758

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 6 October [1862] (see nn.   6, 8, and 11, below), in which CD referred to his research on Linum . CD described L.  flavum in ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ , p.  81 ( Collected papers 2: 104), noting: ‘I have not been able to try any experiments on this species’. Lecoq 1854– …

To Daniel Oliver   [before 27 November 1863]

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Recommends Wyman’s short notice ["Report on Dr Jeffries Wyman’s experiment on the cause of contractility in vegetable tissues"] in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 (1852–7): 167.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  [before 27 Nov 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 53 (EH 88206036)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4327

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  • 1854 ( Oliver 1863e , p.  419). Oliver, an assistant and librarian in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, often sent CD botanical information and references to articles (see, for example, letters from Daniel Oliver , 22 January 1863  and 17 February 1863 ). Joseph Dalton Hooker’s son William Henslow Hooker had been suffering from scarlet fever (see letter from J.  D.   …
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