From Asa Gray 5 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4699 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Crüger, 21 January 1864 and n. 2, and letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] and nn. 11–16. …
- … Letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] . …
- … reviews, see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 25 April [1860] and nn. 1–4, …
- … Wright] 1864a, pp. 600–1). See also letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 and n. 7. Gray …
- … Loring Gray . See letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] , and letter to William Jenner, 9 …
- … and Cuba ( DAB ; see also letter from Charles Wright to Asa Gray, 20, 25, and 26 March and …
- … Walsh in his letter to Gray of 29 October [1864] . See letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [ …
- … Gray refers to the re-election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States in November 1864 (see letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] . The Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London was awarded to CD on 3 November 1864 (Royal Society Council minutes). See Appendix IV. In his letter …
- … Gray’s letter is written on the blank spaces in Bryant’s letter to Gray of 2 December 1864 (see first enclosure). See letter to Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 20, 25, and 26 March and 1 April 1864 , n. 13, and Correspondence vols. 8–10. CD had expressed a wish to obtain seeds of Amphicarpaea in his letter …
- … Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 and n. 9. For CD’s interest in closed, self-pollinating flowers (later called cleistogamic), see Correspondence vols. 10 and 11. See also this volume, letter …
- … Gray also refers to the 1812–14 war between the United States and Britain. The United States had declared war on Britain partly on the grounds that its own policy of neutrality was disregarded in the seizure of United States ships by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (see Hickey 1989 , pp. 12–24, 44). See letter to Asa …
To Asa Gray 29 October [1864]
Summary
Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.
Is plodding on at Variation.
Has added to Climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4647 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 1862] , Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] , and this volume, …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 . …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 . The other letter has not been found. The …
- … Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 and nn. 4 and 22. CD may have been thinking of the anatomist Jeffries Wyman , who was a colleague of Gray’s at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (see letter …
- … Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 ). CD refers to [T. H. Huxley] 1864a, in which Thomas Henry Huxley answered the criticisms of CD’s views by Rudolf Albert von Kölliker and Marie Jean Pierre Flourens . See letter …
- … Gray’s work ( Gray 1858 ) on the movements of the tendrils of cucurbitaceous plants (see ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 1, and Autobiography , p. 129). CD and Emma had long been dissatisfied with the coverage of the American Civil War in The Times (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa …
From Asa Gray 3 October 1864
Summary
Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.
Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4625 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] . Edward Cresy had apparently visited Gray during …
- … the review in early September (see letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). See letter …
- … Wright] 1864a, p. 601). See also letter from Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 and n. 11. A new …
- … paper itself ( Scott 1864a ). See letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and nn. 7 and …
- … it (see letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). See letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [ …
- … For Gray’s view of the likely outcome of the war see, for example, the letter from Asa …
To Asa Gray 13 September [1864]
Summary
Has finished Climbing plants;
resuming work on Variation.
Sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332].
Has received review of Herbert Spencer but cannot believe AG wrote it unless he has muddled his brains with metaphysics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (89) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4611 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . …
- … Chauncey Wright ([Wright] 1864b). See letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 . James Dwight …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] , and Correspondence …
- … to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] , and letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and …
- … Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . According to CD’s journal, the manuscript of ‘Climbing plants’ was finished on 13 September 1864, and CD returned to his manuscript of Variation on 14 September 1864 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II)). However, CD continued making observations and adding to the manuscript of ‘Climbing plants’ until the end of the year (see letter …
- … Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 and n. 5). The reference is to John Scott’s paper ‘Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceæ ’ ( Scott 1864a ); there are annotated copies of this paper in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL, and among CD’s unbound journals in the Darwin Archive–CUL. For a discussion of CD’s role in stimulating Scott to research and write this paper, see the letter …
From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
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 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] . In his letter of 28 May [1864] , CD enclosed a new …
- … Boston financier Nathaniel Thayer (see letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 and nn. …
- … See also letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 and n. 3. See letter to Asa Gray, 28 …
- … Gray, who helped to support Wright’s plant collecting in Cuba (see letter from Charles Wright to Asa …
- … it to Gray (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 , and letter to Asa Gray, 28 …
- … Torrey . Gray refers to George Bentham and to Bentham 1838 , p. 157. See letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 20, 25, and 26 March and 1 April 1864 and nn. 2 and 11). See letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 28 May [1864] and nn. 9 and 10. CD’s observations on the genus Bignonia were made at intervals between January 1863 and November 1864 (DAR 157.1: 114–47). See letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 28 May [1864] and n. 14. The Amphicarpeae are described in Torrey and Gray 1838–43, 1: 291, as having flowers of two kinds: perfect and petaliferous but seldom fertile, and imperfect but often fertile. CD had enquired about dimorphism in hollies in his letter to Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] and n. 22. Gray refers to the American Civil War. CD cut off the bottom half of the second sheet, now in DAR 111: A82, in order to retain para. 5 for reference. Para. 6, also on the clipped portion, and the end of the letter, …
To Asa Gray 28 May [1864]
Summary
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4511 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … covered or lichen-covered trees (see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 and n. 5, and ‘ …
- … to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] . See letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 and n. …
- … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and letter to James Anderson, 23 …
- … B84–6 and B88–93. See letter from Charles Wright to Asa Gray, 20, 25, and 26 March and 1 …
- … to germinate (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 7 July 1863 , and letter …
- … is to Mohl 1863 , p. 312; however, Gray did not make this statement; see letter from Asa …
- … him in July (see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 ). No letter from Wright responding to …
- … Gray, 11 July 1864 . Voandzeia is a genus in the family Leguminosae with one species occurring in tropical Africa and Madagascar ( Willis 1973 ). See also letter from Asa …
- … Gray had been particularly unwell during the winter of 1863–4. See Correspondence vol. 11, enclosure to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [November 1863] , and this volume, letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] ). CD was interested in this North American species, now known as Triodanis perfoliata , because it bears cleistogamic flowers (see Forms of flowers , p. 330). CD refers to the dimorphic species Pulmonaria angustifolia , which he thought might represent a transition from heterostyly to what he later called ‘gyno-dioecism’, in which species include both hermaphrodite and female individuals on different plants (see letter …
From J. D. Hooker [16? October 1864]
Summary
Morphological differences only partly define species; physiological differences, e.g., incompatibility results in Primula, are far more interesting.
T. Thomson’s review of Agardh’s muddled book ["Agardh’s classification of plants", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 536–51].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16? Oct 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 246, 246a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4638 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 September [1864]
Summary
Glad that Oliver is to review John Scott’s paper in the Natural History Review (Scott 1864a). Apologises that his enclosed references (now missing) are so paltry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 17 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4615F |
To J. D. Hooker 13 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.
Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated
and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.
Is working on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 249a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4612 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 24 July 1864? ] and n. 14. See letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [ 1864] and n. 3. CD …
- … 1954 , p. 2). Scott 1864a . See also letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] . CD refers …
- … on Scott’s paper enclosed with the letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and nn. 11, …
- … enclosure to the letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] . See letter from Richard Spruce …
To J. D. Hooker 23 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased with news of BAAS meeting
and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.
Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.
Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].
Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.
Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.
Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.
Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4621 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
From Edward Cresy 29 July 1864
Summary
Requests letter of introduction to Asa Gray.
Went to Linnean Society to hear CD’s Lythrum paper read [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4579 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Requests letter of introduction to Asa Gray. Went to Linnean Society to hear CD’s Lythrum …
- … Gray’s on Origin ( [Gray] 1860 ) that CD had recommended (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Edward Cresy, 12 December [1860] ). CD wrote in his letter to Cresy of 28 May [1861] , ‘I am very glad to hear that you like Asa …
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1864]
Summary
To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.
On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.
CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4642 |
To Daniel Oliver [c. 10 June 1864]
Summary
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [c. 10 June 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4532 |
To George Busk 4 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4696 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1864]
Summary
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4474 |
From Asa Gray 16 February 1864
Summary
Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].
Death of Francis Boott.
U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4409 |
From William Henry Harvey 19 May 1864
Summary
Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4503 |
To Louis Agassiz 12 April 1864
Summary
Thanks LA for Methods of study [1863].
Is gratified that he has not taken a personal dislike to CD, though he is strongly opposed to nearly everything CD has written.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 12 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4460 |
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Balfour, J. H. | (1) |
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Busk, George | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (65) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Gray, Asa | (9) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Jenner, William | (1) |
Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Naudin, C. V. | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (2) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
Stokes, G. G. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …