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From Asa Gray   11 July 1864

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Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.

Comments on some climbing plants.

Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].

Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.

Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4558

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  • letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] and n.  12. The correct spelling is ‘ Voandzeia ’, a genus in the family Leguminosae. John Torrey . Gray refers to George Bentham

From Asa Gray   9 November 1861

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Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.

Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Nov 1861
Classmark:  DAR 110 (ser. 2): 63–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3313

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  • 12 (1861): pp.  420–1). Thomas Colley Grattan was the British consul in Boston from 1838 to 1846. This information does not occur in the extant letters from George Bentham
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