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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

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Reports his limited observations on climbing of Nepenthes.

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]

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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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