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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 108: 178
Summary:

Answers CD’s query on Primula longiflora and P. scotica.

Would like abstract of CD’s paper ["Two forms of Linum", Collected papers 2: 93–105] for Natural History Review.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 41 (EH 88206024)
Summary:

Having trouble understanding laws of phyllotaxy in order to grasp Hugh Falconer’s objections.

L. C. Treviranus on Primula [see 3980] misses the "prettiness" of the adaptations.

John Scott says P. scotica is never dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 20
Summary:

DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project