| Authorised form of name | Oliver; Daniel (1830 - 1916) |
| Dates | 1830 - 1916 |
| Place of birth | Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England |
| Date of birth | 06 February 1830 |
| Date of death | 21/12/1916 |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Education:
Society of Friends' School, Brookfield, Wigton
Career:
Began working at Kew Gardens (1858); Keeper of the Herbarium and Library (1864); Professor of Botany, University College, London (1861-1888)
Memberships:
FLS (1853)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1863 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1884 |
| Relationships | Son of Andrew and Jane Oliver of Benwell Hills, Quakers |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1917-1919 vol 90 pp xi-xv, plate, signed by W B H |
| Royal Society code | NA1687 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1863/09 | Oliver, Daniel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/003374 | Oliver, Daniel | nd |
| IM/Maull/003375 | Oliver, Daniel | nd |
| RR/9/99 | Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'On the morphology and the development of the meliola, a genus of tropical epiphyllous fungi' by Harry Marshall Ward | 22 December 1882 |
| RR/17/50 | Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'On the Julianiaceae: a new natural order of plants' by William Botting Hemsley | [October 1906] |
| NLB/54/108 | Copy letter from Joesph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Oliver, [Wife of Professor Daniel Oliver, FRS] | 6 February 1917 |
| NLB/33/723 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Daniel Oliver, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 October 1906 |
| RR/7/285 | Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'On leaf-arrangement' by Hubert Airy | 25 June 1874 |
| NLB/54/91 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William Botting] Hemsley, FRS | 5 February 1917 |
| RR/10/46 | Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers' by George Henslow | 24 December 1887 |
| RR/7/433 | Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'On the leaf-arrangement of the crowberry (empetrum nigrum)' by Hubert Airy | 27 September 1876 |
| MS/427/391 | Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry Ponsonby | 6 November 1884 |
| MC/23/330 | Letter from [Daniel] Oliver, to the [Royal Society] | 5 November 1908 |
| MC/20/254 | Letter from [Daniel] Oliver, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 23 March 1905 |
| MC/20 | Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1905 |