To Asa Gray 15 March [1862]
Summary
Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.
"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3473 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … year is established by the relationship to the letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 . …
- … D. Hooker, 26 [March 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . Winkler trans. …
- … W. Bates, 13 January [1862] . See letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . CD probably …
- … to Asa Gray, 11 December [1860] , and Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
- … Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 . CD refers to Gray’s pamphlet on natural selection and natural theology ( A. Gray 1861 ); CD and Gray had shared the cost of having the pamphlet printed (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter …
- … Asa Gray, 17 February [1861] ). Nicholas Trübner was head of the publishing firm, Trübner and Co. , which acted as the London agent for distribution of the pamphlet in Britain. See also Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix III. CD refers to Bronn trans. 1863 (see letter …
From Asa Gray 31 March [1862]
Summary
Has been reading J. D. Morell’s new book on psychology [An introduction to mental philosophy, on the inductive method (1862)].
Progress of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3489 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] . …
- … £50 royalties (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter from Asa Gray, 20 February 1860 , …
- … from Asa Gray, [late June 1862] . Nicholas Trübner . See letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [ …
- … Asa Gray, 11 April [1861] ). Gray refers to the Boston firm Ticknor and Fields, the publishers of A. Gray 1861 . See letter …
- … Asa Gray was Fisher Professor of natural history at Harvard University and lectured at the Lawrence Scientific School ( Dupree 1959 ). Francis Boott . Morell 1862 . See also letter …
- … Asa Gray, 8 March [1860] ). Gray had used a portion of this money to pay for the printing costs of A. Gray 1861 (see n. 5, above, and Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1862]
Summary
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3469 |
From Asa Gray 6 March [1862]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3467 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . For the extensive correspondence between CD and …
- … died on 26 February 1862 ( DAB ). See letter to Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] and n. 11. …
- … to CD later in the year (see letters from Asa Gray , 15 July [1862] and 4 August 1862 , …
- … 9. Asa Gray provided CD with further information on Rhexia later in the year (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1862]
Summary
CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.
Orchids to appear soon.
Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.
Work on floral dimorphism.
High opinion of Buckle as a writer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3468 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 March [1862]
Summary
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3472 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … D. Hooker, [10 March 1862] . See letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 . The photograph …
- … Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray. Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to …
- … letter: I agree with much of what you say about the amiable reciprocal feelings of nations; but Emma agrees with your last sentence that you wrote in a Mephistophelerian spirit. I think you are a bit too hard on Asa Gray; …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [March 1862]
Summary
Asks JDH to correct names of two species of Calanthe.
Note from Asa Gray ends "Yours cordially", so CD hopes he is forgiven.
His Catasetum paper will be read 3 Apr [Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Plants and seeds sent will be of great use, especially Lythrum, which according to J. P. E. Vaucher seems grand case of trimorphism. Asks what sort of man Vaucher is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3481 |
From C. W. Crocker [before 13 March 1862]
Summary
Will experiment on hollyhocks as CD suggests.
On desirability of a place for experiments to be set up by Government or a scientific society. Kew is too busy for experiments.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 13 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3464 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1862]
Summary
Both JDH’s and Bates’s letters are excellent. JDH has said all that can be said against direct effect of conditions, but CD still sticks to his own and Bates’s side. CD should have done what JDH suggests (since naturally he is pleased to attribute little to conditions) – viz., started on the fundamental principle that variation is innate and stated that afterwards, perhaps, this principle would be made explicable. Variation will show that "use and disuse" have some effect. Does not believe in perfect reversion. Demurs at JDH’s "centrifugal variation"; the doctrine of the good of diversification amply accounts for variation being centrifugal.
The wonderful mechanism of Mormodes ignea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3484 |
From J. D. Hooker [23–5 March 1862]
Summary
Identifies Calanthe masuca.
Asa Gray would not quarrel with them – "snubbing from us may have done him more good than our sympathy".
If CD means the old Vaucher, he was considered a very accurate, acute, able observer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–5 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3483 |
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Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
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