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To Daniel Oliver 7 December [1861]
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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 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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- … J. D. Hooker, 25 November [1861] , and to Daniel Oliver , 7 December [1861]. To account for the European character of the flora of Madeira and for the presence of American forms, Oswald Heer had proposed that Madeira, the Canaries, Porto Santo, and the Azores were the remnants of a sunken land-mass, or ‘Atlantis’, that in the Tertiary period had been connected by a land-bridge to America and Europe (Heer 1857). …
