From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 26
Summary:
Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 81, 104
Summary:
Encloses memorandum on tendrils. Nature of tendrils in Modecca.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 107
Summary:
Observations on climbing species of Tacoma. [Tecoma!?]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
11 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 103
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042)
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?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 106
Summary:
References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031)
Summary:
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[c. 10 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044)
Summary:
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 27
Summary:
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032)
Summary:
L. H. Palm [Über das Winden der Pflanzen (1827)] is better on climbing plants than H. von Mohl [Über den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen (1827)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 28
Summary:
Thanks for photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
13 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033)
Summary:
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 105
Summary:
Reports his limited observations on climbing of Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043)
Summary:
Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 62 (EH 88206045)
Summary:
Requests addresses of J. E. Planchon, W. F. Hofmeister and M. J. Schleiden so he can send them copies of Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 29
Summary:
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046)
Summary:
Sends Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in S. Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9] to be refereed.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 173: 30
Summary:
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 31
Summary:
Gives CD some references to papers.
Reports improvement in his wife’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project