To Asa Gray 25 February [1864]
Summary
Has not worked for six months due to illness.
Has been looking at climbing plants.
Hermann Crüger’s paper shows that CD was right about Catasetum pollination. Crüger’s account of pollination of Coryanthes "beats everything".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … crosses & on movements of climbing plants. — I have of course seen no one & except good dear Hooker, I hear from no one. He like a good & true friend, though so overworked, often writes to me. — I have had one letter which has interested me greatly with a paper which will appear in Linn. Journal by D r . …
To Asa Gray 5 September [1857]
Summary
Encloses an abstract of his ideas on natural selection and the principle of divergence; the "means by which nature makes her species".
Discusses varieties and close species in large and small genera, finding some data from AG in conflict with his expectations.
Has been observing the action of bees in fertilising kidney beans and Lobelia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2136 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … crosses. I forget whether I ever said I had received safely M r . Watson’s papers. & your Lesson in Botany, for which very many thanks & which I am now reading. But I have never had the last part of your paper on Naturalised Plants. If you have a spare copy (which is not likely) I sh d . be very glad of it: otherwise I will borrow Hooker’s. I ought to feel ashamed of the length of this letter, …
