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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18? August 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 281-282
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
