To Asa Gray 8 March 1877
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Leucosmia burnettiana is in all probability dimorphic. Thinks Gilia is truly heterostyled and Phlox subulata was, perhaps, once heterostyled. Has good evidence of heterostyly in 39 genera from 14 families.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (117) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10883 |
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4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin
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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…
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- … and bibliography The Hornet , 5:115 (22 March 1871), p. 308 and following plate. [James Duncan …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News
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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…
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- … on p. 243. Harper’s Weekly , 15:745 (8 April 1871), p. 308, wood engraving with the same caption, …
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