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DCP-LETT-5494

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 173: 33
Summary:

Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5824F

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 81
Summary:

Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8770

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

DCP-LETT-9675

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 99–100
Summary:

Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9689

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 106–7
Summary:

Sends information about Indian and Australian species of Aldrovanda, Roridula, and Byblis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9765

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 112–13
Summary:

Sends Utricularia montana and Byblis species.

Drosera census numbers 100 species.

Genlisea distinguished from Utricularia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9778

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 114
Summary:

Sends capsules with results from Genlisea specimens and fragments of Polypompholyx.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9796

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 115
Summary:

The generic name Genlisea must be preserved for Utriculariaceae with five-part calyces.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10298

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[15 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 65 (EH 88206048)
Summary:

Ferdinand Cohn has already sent a copy of his article, [possibly: "Über die Function der Blasen von Aldrovanda und Utricularia", Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1870–5) pt 3: 71–89].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-2661

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
22 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989)
Summary:

Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2913

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
11 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 9 (EH 88205993)
Summary:

Requests observations on Drosera and Dionaea,

and asks DO to look up Buchanan and Wight on insectivorous plants ["Conspectus of Indian Utricularia", Hooker’s J. Bot. 1 (1849): 372–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2917

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 [Sept 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 10 (EH 88205994)
Summary:

Thanks for reference to Annales des Sciences Naturelles.

Requests DO observe rate at which Australian Drosera closes.

On detection of nitrogen in organic fluids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2923

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
21 [Sept 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 11 and part of 17 (EH 88205995, 88206001)
Summary:

Lists of nitrogenous organic fluids that produce contraction in Drosera, and details of how to reproduce results.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[22–3 Sept 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 12 (EH 88205996) and part of DAR 261.10: 18 (EH 88206002)
Summary:

Sends address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[10 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 13 (EH 88205997)
Summary:

Delighted to try experiments on Drosera spathulata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2939

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 14 (EH 88205998)
Summary:

A poser: carbonate of soda produces inflection rather than contraction in Drosera. Possible solution: glands at end of hairs absorb as well as secrete. Fascinated by currents in cells after inflection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2941

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[29 Sept 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 15 (EH 88205999)
Summary:

Requests Dionaea now that he knows Drosera so well. Wants to compare fluids secreted; in Drosera they are acid and have antiseptic effect on meat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
12 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 16 (EH 88206000)
Summary:

Requests DO apply carbonate of ammonia to sensitive hair of Dionaea and measure reaction time. Wants to compare Drosera and Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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