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
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 64 (EH 88206047)
Summary:
Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (3 December 2010: Sale 2361, Lot 422)
Summary:
Thanks for the information about the action of roots on rocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452)
Summary:
Thanks him for specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
19 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:
Returns insectivorous plants to Kew, with questions about their range. Most species seem to have remarkably confined ranges.
Asks for a Bengal Aldrovanda leaf so that he can see whether it differs from the German species.
Roridula interested him extremely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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