To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 April [1862]
Summary
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4097 |
To Daniel Oliver 18 July [1863]
Summary
Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 18 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4244 |
From Daniel Oliver 20 July 1863
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper is unsuitable for the Natural History Review.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4247 |
To Daniel Oliver [before 27 November 1863]
Summary
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 |
From Daniel Oliver [27 March 1863]
Summary
Sends some specimens for CD.
Is busy with W. African Amomum, whose floral structure he discusses.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4328 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 27 November 1863
Summary
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 |
To Daniel Oliver 28 [November 1863]
Summary
Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 28 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4350 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 20 July 1863]
Summary
Gives a reference to a paper.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4366 |
From Daniel Oliver [28 January – 8 February 1864]
Summary
Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Jan – 8 Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398F |
To Daniel Oliver 17 February [1864]
Summary
Sends Hermann Crüger’s paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for publication.
"Boasts" of confirmation that sexes are separate in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 17 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4410 |
From Daniel Oliver 18 February 1864
Summary
Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4411 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 31 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 31 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 81, 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4417 |
From Daniel Oliver [17 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4418 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1864
Summary
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4425 |
To Daniel Oliver 18 March [1864]
Summary
Thanks for information on Tecoma.
Cannot believe DO’s statement about Catasetum; is sure C. tridentatum sets seeds in its native country.
CD erred on Acropera, but how is it naturally fertilised?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4430 |
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 |
To Daniel Oliver 4 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 4 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4481 |
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