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 24–5 March [1863]
Summary
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24–5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4059 |
To Daniel Oliver [before 11 June 1862]
Summary
Asa Gray approves of Orchids; his work on American species confirms CD’s findings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [before 11 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 33 (EH 88206016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3583 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver [1 April 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4443 |
Matches: 1 hit
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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). …
To Daniel Oliver 12 [April 1862]
Summary
DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.
DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].
CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".
Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.
Organisation of CD’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 12 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3504 |
To Daniel Oliver 11 March [1864]
Summary
Struck with corresponding positions of tendrils and flower-stalks in Passiflora. Sends [W. E. Darwin’s] dissection drawings of earliest stages. Infers that tendril is a modified flower peduncle.
Requests DO look at mode of climbing in Tecoma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 11 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4424 |
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Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
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Oliver, Daniel |