To Daniel Oliver 1 April [1861]
Summary
CD never dreamed primroses did not abound with DO; apologises for trouble and sends flowers.
Will repay DO for cost of Cypripedium and for the Dionaea, if any can be got.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.243) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3106 |
To Daniel Oliver 23 April [1861]
Summary
Congratulations on DO’s marriage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 23 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3125F |
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 |
To Daniel Oliver 8 October [1861]
Summary
Asks DO to look for nectar in Stanhopea saccata labellum. CD’s theory predicts nectar should be present, but afraid there is none.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 8 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 31 (EH 88206014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3279 |
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 |
To Daniel Oliver 4 April [1861]
Summary
Primula sibirica seems to be the only non-dimorphic species. Has made over one hundred Primula crosses.
Regrets Henslow’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 29 (EH 88206012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3110 |
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 9 April [1861]
Summary
Asks DO to identify enclosed Fumaria or Corydalis flower, with springing hood adaptation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 9 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 6 (EH 88205990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3499 |
To Daniel Oliver 22 January [1861]
Summary
Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 22 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2661 |
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 |
To Daniel Oliver 7 December [1861]
Summary
Trusts DO’s opinion on Acropera ovules.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 7 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 3 (EH 88205987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3340 |
To Daniel Oliver 3 November [1861]
Summary
Thanks for "multitudinous" references.
Thanks Hooker for orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 3 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4329 |
To Daniel Oliver 26 February [1861]
Summary
Praise for DO’s paper on Hamamelidaceae ["On Sycopis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" family.
Hydropathy at Malvern may take him from Drosera. Requests Dionaea and Cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 26 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 39 (EH 88206022) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3072 |
To Daniel Oliver 23 March [1861]
Summary
CD will publish on Primula [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Will DO ask W. H. Fitch to make woodcuts of "pin" and "non-pin" primroses [i.e., long-styled and short-styled forms]? Encloses a sketch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 23 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 4 (EH 88205988); Christie’s Images (Christie’s (dealers) 11 November 1998, lot 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3097 |
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 |
To Daniel Oliver 11 September [1861]
Summary
Has put Drosera off while amusing himself with Primula and orchids.
Dionaea is prettily adapted to weight detection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 11 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 30, 66 (EH 88206013, EH 88206049) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3251 |
To Daniel Oliver 30 November [1861]
Summary
Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.
Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?
O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 30 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 2 (EH 88205986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3333 |
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