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To Daniel Oliver 27 May [1861]
Summary
Requests that exotic species of Vinca, which never set seed at Kew, be fertilised by pressing a fine bristle between anthers as a moth would its proboscis.
Asks that Primula farinosa be sent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 27 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 8 (EH 88205992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3161 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Oliver, Daniel …
- … r Crocker liked experiments; if so I wish he would insert fine brush, like a Bee into a few exotic Polygalas which do not naturally seed & mark flowers & see if pods swell; I suspect they require insect agency. By the way you have not sent me P. farinosa; I daresay you have been so busy that you forgot it. — I beg & pray you not merely to acknowledge this. Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin …
To Daniel Oliver 1 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks W. H. Fitch for drawing for the Primula paper. Death of experimental plants delays publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 1 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 7 (EH 88205991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3133 |
