From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24–5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025)
Summary:
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 43 (EH 88206026)
Summary:
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
31 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 44 (EH 88206027)
Summary:
Asks DO to give enclosed [letter?] from John Scott to Hooker.
JS’s work on orchid self-sterility; Acropera has 371250 seeds in one capsule.
Wishes something could be done for Scott.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[12 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 46 (EH 88206029)
Summary:
Working on monstrous Primula. Is ovule anatropous as Asa Gray says, or amphitropous? Does he know natural path of pollen tubes in Primula. Can the tube enter the ovule by the chalaza?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[after 14 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 214
Summary:
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034)
Summary:
Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[before 27 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 53 (EH 88206036)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035)
Summary:
Thanks for "multitudinous" references.
Thanks Hooker for orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037)
Summary:
Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041)
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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[22 July 1864]
Source of text:
Edward Ford (private collection); in September 2020 owned by ZHANG, Lun Xia (private collection)
Summary:
Will DO observe whether leaf [of Nepenthes] with pitcher ever wound round a stick? CD’s plant is improving.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 119
Summary:
Glad that Oliver is to review John Scott’s paper in the Natural History Review (Scott 1864a). Apologises that his enclosed references (now missing) are so paltry.
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