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DCP-LETT-10887F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
10 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/6)
Summary:

Enquiring about cleistogamic flowers of Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10891F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
13 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/7)
Summary:

Discusses possible cleistogamic flowers in Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8212F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 or 23] Feb 1872 or [1, 8 or 15] Mar 1872
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Pybus (Professor Frederick) Archive GB186 FP/2/7/35)
Summary:

Suggests a visit to Kew to see the hot houses the following Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9763F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4)
Summary:

Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9795F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/5)
Summary:

Returning the plants DO had sent him from Kew

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9803F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[after 6 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8)
Summary:

Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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