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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 13
Summary:

Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.

Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].

Observations on Campanula dimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
12 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985)
Summary:

DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.

DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].

CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".

Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.

Organisation of CD’s notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 54–5
Summary:

Discusses primrose ovules,

Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],

plant migrations;

Corydalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028)
Summary:

Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 56 (EH 88206039)
Summary:

Requests Oxalis acetosella, which he suspects is dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 14
Summary:

Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 47 (EH 88206030)
Summary:

Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.

Case of aestival flowers is very curious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project