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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
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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:
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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:
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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.

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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:
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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
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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
6 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
8 October 1876
Source of text:
Newcastle University Library, Special Collections: SW/1/20/2, Spence Watson/Weiss Archive
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 173: 35
Summary:

Discusses the cleistogamous flowers of Oxalis. Thinks they may not be truly cleistogamous but merely arrested or imperfectly developed normal flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 173: 34
Summary:

Thanks for Forms of flowers.

Alexander Dickson would like to know whether anyone has described the epidermal cells lining the pitcher of Cephalotus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project