To Daniel Oliver 4 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 4 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4481 |
To Daniel Oliver [c. 10 June 1864]
Summary
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [c. 10 June 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4532 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 June 1864
Summary
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4534 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 June [1864]
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)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4536 |
From Daniel Oliver 18 June 1864
Summary
Thanks for photograph.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4539 |
To Daniel Oliver 13 July [1864]
Summary
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 13 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4564 |
To Daniel Oliver [22 July 1864]
Summary
Will DO observe whether leaf [of Nepenthes] with pitcher ever wound round a stick? CD’s plant is improving.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [22 July 1864] |
Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection); in September 2020 owned by ZHANG, Lun Xia (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4566 |
From Daniel Oliver 21 July 1864
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4571 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 September [1864]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 17 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4615F |
To Daniel Oliver 24 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4643 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 December [1864]
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].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 62 (EH 88206045) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4716 |
From Daniel Oliver 16 December 1864
Summary
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4718 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 October [1865]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4920 |
From Daniel Oliver 23 October 1865
Summary
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4922 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 13 May 1866]
Summary
Gives CD some references to papers.
Reports improvement in his wife’s health.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 13 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4964 |
From Daniel Oliver 9 June 1866
Summary
Identifies a plant.
CD will not find Hermann Schacht’s Lehrbuch [der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse (1856–9)] at the Linnean Society Library.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5116 |
From Daniel Oliver 8 April 1867
Summary
Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5494 |
From Daniel Oliver [before February 1868]
Summary
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824F |
To Daniel Oliver 15 November 1871
Summary
Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 64 (EH 88206047) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8068 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 November 1871
Summary
Thanks for the information about the action of roots on rocks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 17 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (3 December 2010: Sale 2361, Lot 422) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8074F |
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