To Asa Gray 3 June [1874]
Summary
CD is deeply pleased by AG’s article on him in Nature [10 (1874): 79–81].
Is preparing book on "Drosera and Co." for the printers. Reports observations on digestion in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9480 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … tournament (see LL 1: 123, and letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ( Calendar no. …
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . Gray had enclosed a letter …
- … see the second enclosure to the letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . CD had discussed …
- … has not been identified; see also annotations to letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . For …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 and nn. 2 and 3. See letter from Asa Gray, 12 May …
- … Gray, Asa. 1874c. Scientific worthies: III. —Charles Robert Darwin. Nature , 4 June 1874, pp. 79–81. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. LL : The life and letters …
From Asa Gray [August 1857]
Summary
States he has "misgivings about the definiteness of species". Believes there is some inherent tendency for plants to originate varieties. Cross-fertilisation is likely in most cases but sees difficulties with plants like Adlumia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Aug 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 100, 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2129 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … This letter falls between the letters to Asa Gray , 20 July [1857] and 5 September [ …
- … discussion of this point in the letter to Asa Gray, 18 June [1857] , and the letter …
- … from Asa Gray, 7 July 1857 . See letter to Asa Gray, 20 July [1857] . The chapter numbers …
- … Asa Gray, 20 July [1857] , in which CD revealed his belief in the transmutation of species. Gray added this reference to A. Gray 1856b in the margin of the letter …
To Asa Gray 1 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3634 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … may have been included with the letter from Asa Gray, [late June 1862] . Gray included …
- … June – 2 July 1862, in DAR 205.8: 14–15, and letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ). See …
- … had shared (see letter from Asa Gray, 31 March [1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 21 April [ …
- … the summer (see letters to Asa Gray , 16 February [1862] and 15 March [1862] , and letter …
- … vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 9 November 1861 . See also this volume, letter …
- … up article ( A. Gray 1862b , pp. 427–8). See also letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] …
- … Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] ). Later, CD asked Gray if he would cover his plant under a net ‘& see if it seeded as well as uncovered plants’ ( letter …
- … Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] . CD had discovered that Lythrum salicaria and L. thymifolia were trimorphic in December 1861, on reading Lecoq 1854–8 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
From Asa Gray 7 July 1857
Summary
Believes, with CD, that extinction may be an important factor in explaining plant distributions, but sees no reason why the several species of a genus must ever have had a common or continuous area. "Convince me of that, or show me any good grounds for it … and I think you would carry me a good way with you". It is just such people as AG that CD has to satisfy and convince.
Feels that the crossing of individuals is important in repressing variation and perhaps in perpetuating the species, but instances some plants in which it cannot, apparently, take place.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 381; DAR 165: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2120 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … occasionally cross-fertilised (see letters to Asa Gray , [after 15 March 1857] and 18 …
- … Watson, 10 March 1857 , letter from H. C. Watson to Asa Gray, 13 March 1857 , and letter …
- … to Asa Gray, 9 May [1857] , and letter …
- … from Asa Gray, 1 June 1857 ). A. Gray 1857a . See letter to Asa Gray, 18 June [1857] . …
- … Asa Gray, [after 15 March 1857] . A duplicate copy of the third part of A. Gray 1856–7 (see letter …
- … Asa Gray, 20 July [1857] . J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855. Jean Louis Auguste Loiseleur Deslongchamps had made such a claim for wheat in Loiseleur Deslongchamps 1842–3 (see Natural selection , p. 59). CD had made the same observation (see Natural selection , p. 48). The number of CD’s portfolio of notes on palaeontology and extinction. This letter …
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 …
To Asa Gray 21 April [1862]
Summary
Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3513 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … of Orchids (see n. 5, below). See letters from Asa Gray , 6 March [1862] and 31 March [ …
- … April 1862 ( Curry 1968 ). In the letter to Asa Gray, 17 September [1861] ( Correspondence …
- … would be necessary (see ibid. , letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 , and letter …
- … from Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] and n. 6). See letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . CD …
- … letters to Asa Gray , 16 February [1862] and 15 March [1862] . Mill 1862 . See letter from …
- … Asa Gray, [after 11 October 1861] ). CD refers to Gray’s ‘zealous pupil’, probably Joseph Trimble Rothrock (see letter …
- … Gray had asked CD to send him the sheets of Orchids as soon as they were printed because he wished to write an early review (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from 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 18 May [1860]
Summary
Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.
Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2808 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … May 1860] . [R. Owen] 1860a. See letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] and nn. 4 and 5. CD …
- … Gray, 23 January 1860 , n. 2, and letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] . The first three …
- … a supplement of seven pages of additional changes that CD sent to Asa Gray (see letters …
- … to letter from Asa Gray, 20 February 1860 ). The second letter to which CD refers may be …
- … of Origin . Gray’s letter has not been found, but see the letter from Asa Gray, 20 …
- … Gray had apparently thought he had sent this letter on to CD as well. See also letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray , 28 January [1860] , 1 February [1860] , [8 or 9 February 1860] , and 8 March [1860] ). The revised American edition thus incorporated most of the changes made to the second English edition of Origin as well as several subsequently added to the third English edition (1861). See Freeman 1977 , p. 83. John Phillips . See letter …
To John Murray [25 January 1860]
Summary
CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.
P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [25 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2632 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 23 January 1860 . See letter from Asa Gray, [10 January 1860] and n. 3. …
- … 1845] , and Freeman 1977 , p. 39). Letter from Asa Gray, [10 January 1860] . The part of …
- … P.S.I have just received letter from Prof. Asa Gray, who says the U. States in a few …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860] . CD had not yet received the letter from Asa Gray, …
- … Asa Gray’s account of the excitement my Book has made amonst Naturalists in U. States. Agassiz has denounced it in Newspaper, but yet in such terms that it is in fact a fine advertisement! — Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin N.B | I have forgotten the object of my note to say that at date of A. Grays letter …
From Asa Gray 1 June 1857
Summary
Comments on species with disjoined ranges; does not feel, despite CD’s expectations, that they tend to belong to small families.
Gives the proportion of U. S. trees in which the sexes are separate [see Natural selection, p. 62].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 8: 47bA |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2098 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 9 May [1857] . …
- … to Asa Gray, 9 May [1857] . See letter …
- … to Asa Gray, [after 15 March 1857] , in which CD enclosed some notes and a letter from …
- … from Asa Gray , [ c . 24 May 1857]. See letter …
- … Asa Gray , 1 January [1857] and [after 15 March 1857] . Gray refers to his tabulation of the trees of the northern United States in A. Gray 1856–7 , p. 400. See letter …
From Asa Gray 18 May 1862
Summary
Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."
Details of U. S. orchids.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3559 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Asa Gray, 21 December [1859] , and Correspondence …
- … Ticknor and James Thomas Fields. See letter from Asa Gray, 31 March [1862] , and letter …
- … to Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] and nn. 11 and 13. See letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] …
- … from Asa Gray, 31 December 1861 ). See also letter …
- … to Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] . See letter …
- … to Asa Gray , 12 March [1861] , 5 June [1861] , and 21 July [1861] ; see also letter to …
- … Asa Gray had asked CD to send him the printed sheets of Orchids as they appeared so he could write an early review (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
- … Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] . Gray’s name also appears on CD’s presentation list for Orchids (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix IV). CD initially considered publishing his study of orchid pollination as a paper in one of the journals of the Linnean Society of London (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
To Asa Gray 10–20 June [1862]
Summary
Thanks AG for praise of Orchids and his notes on several American species of orchid. Comments on AG’s observations.
Is experimenting [on dimorphism] with Rhexia and Melastoma.
Asks AG’s opinion of a paper by Thomas Meehan ["On the uniformity of relative characters between allied species of European and American trees", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1862): 10–13] which is the best case of the apparently direct action of the conditions of life CD has seen.
Requests postage stamp for his ill son [Leonard].
Thanks AG for observations on Cypripedium and gives recent observations of his own.
Arethusa is very pretty; structure seems like that of Vanilla.
Finds the little (so-called imperfect) flowers of Viola and Oxalis curious: the pollen-grains emit their tubes whilst within the anthers, and they travel in straight lines right to the stigmas.
Sympathises with events in the U. S.
Reports on French translation of Origin by Mlle C. Royer, "one of the cleverest & oddest women in Europe".
Alphonse de Candolle says he wants direct proof of natural selection; "he will have to wait a long time for that".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10–20 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3595 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … publication of Orchids . In the letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 , Gray gave his first …
- … see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 ). CD had recently been …
- … not been found, but see the letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 , in which Gray mentioned …
- … in different Rhexia plants (see letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] ); if Gray found …
- … See nn. 6 and 7, above. See letter from Asa Gray, [2 June 1862] . Gray enclosed some …
- … and n. 2). See n. 16, above. See letter from Asa Gray, [2 June 1862] and n. 2. There is …
- … from Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] ). See also letter …
- … Gray to observe and experiment on Cypripedium the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 9, letters to Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] ). Gray replied that the nearest hollies grew twenty miles away, but that he could ‘send’ for some (see letter …
- … Gray planned to review Orchids in the American Journal of Science and Arts and wanted to use some of the original illustrations from the book (see letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] ). Gray offered to ‘set to watching’ R. virginica in the summer, but doubted whether the plant was dimorphic (see letter …
- … Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] and n. 13. CD had recently received a specimen of Rhexia glandulosa (a synonym of Monochaetum floribundum ) from Joseph Dalton Hooker , on which he had begun to experiment (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1862]
Summary
Genera plantarum reviewed in Parthenon by a man who says JDH is disgraced by being "obviously tinged with Darwinism".
CD by chance has found that Saturday Review article [14 (1862): 589] on Duke of Argyll was written by his [CD’s] nephew, Henry Parker.
Asa Gray sends American newspapers which CD never reads.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3881 |
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 17 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4833 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] . Gray’s letter has not been found. See letter to …
- … Europe ( ibid. , p. 7). See letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [ 1865] and n. 6. The United …
- … States (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] and n. 19). …
- … n. 3, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 and nn. 8 and …
- … see Davis 1991 , pp. 651–63). See letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 and n. 10. In …
- … of the paper by June 1865 (see letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] and n. 16). Gray …
- … Gray’s wife, Jane Loring Gray ( Dupree 1959 , p. 192). Brace did not visit CD (see letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 31 December 1861 , n. 12). Other incidents included the Trent affair in September 1861, and the Alabama affair in 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 9, 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 Asa Gray 22 September 1862
Summary
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 118, 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3736 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … 9 August [1862] and [3–]4 September [1862] . See letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] , …
- … Letters to Asa Gray , 21 August [1862] and [3–]4 September [1862] . In his letter to Gray …
- … 1862] and n. 4). Horace Darwin . See letter to Asa Gray, [3–]4 September [1862] . Joseph …
- … 132 and 254). See, for example, the letter to Asa Gray, 21 August [1862] and n. 10. Gray’ …
- … Asa Gray, 5 September 1862 . Nesaea verticillata (a synonym of Decodon verticillatus ) is swamp loosestrife. See letter …
- … Asa Gray, 5 September 1862 and n. 11. Spiranthes cernua is common ladies’ tresses. See letters …
- … Gray had made a number of observations on American species of orchids in the summer of 1862, sending several sets of notes to CD, who encouraged Gray to publish them. In his letter to Gray of [3–]4 September [1862] , CD expressed pleasure at Gray’s intention to include some of his observations in the follow-up article to his review of Orchids ( A. Gray 1862b ). See letter to Asa …
To Asa Gray 14 July [1856]
Summary
Asks whether Allegheny Mountains are sufficiently continuous so that plants could travel from north to south along them.
Hopes AG’s work on geographical distribution is progressing, as he has questions on plants common to Europe which do not range up to Arctic.
Are intermediate varieties less numerous in individuals than the varieties they connect?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 14 July [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1926 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s comments in letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1856] . Letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] . …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] . …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] , and the letters exchanged between Gray and CD in …
- … letter to Sir W. J. Hooker. London Journal of Botany 1 (1842): 1–14, 217–37; 2 (1843): 113-25; 3 (1844): 230–42. Gray, Asa. …
To Asa Gray 17 September [1861]
Summary
U. S. politics and relations with England.
Wants examples of dimorphism similar to Primula.
Structure and function of Spiranthes flower.
Observations and experiments on Drosera.
CD’s views on design.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3256 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Dated by the reference to the letter from Asa Gray, [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [ …
- … 4, Appendix IV, 128: 23, 25; and vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 26 November [1860] . In his …
- … his observations is missing ( letter from Asa Gray, [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [ …
- … as the letter to Asa Gray, 16 September [1861] . See letter from Asa Gray, [27 and 29 …
- … see letter to Asa Gray, 16 September [1861] ). CD sent this letter in the same envelope …
- … to Professor Asa Gray he alludes to slavery with the utmost detestation. See letter …
- … Asa Gray, 21 July [1861] . Gray had apparently done so and failed to confirm CD’s observations. The portion of Gray’s letter …
- … Asa Gray Manual p. 263 Ilex. it seems that the N. American species have not their sexes nearly so much separated. —’ CD only briefly mentioned this case when he published a full account of his study of dimorphism ( Forms of flowers , pp. 297–8). For Gray’s response to CD’s query about American species of holly, see the letter …
- … Asa Gray, 16 September [1861] . A. Gray 1856 , p. 80. The passage is marked in CD’s copy in the Darwin Library–CUL. Gray had told CD in his letter …
- … Asa Gray, 31 October [1860] . CD had begun studying Drosera and other insectivorous plants during the summer of 1860. See Correspondence vol. 8. The reference is to CD’s work on the variation of plants and animals under domestication, which was published in two volumes in 1868. See letter …
To J. D. Hooker 16 May [1866]
Summary
Glad to see Asa Gray’s letter.
Asks whether he may insert a sentence about Cape Verde alpine plants in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Fears "twaddle" may also be the word for his two chapters on cultivated plants. Asks for Crawfurd’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 289, 289b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5091 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [November 1862]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes".
Bates’s paper is admirable. The act of segregation of varieties into species was never so plainly brought forth.
CD is a little sorry that his present work is leading him to believe rather more in the direct action of physical conditions. Regrets it because it lessens the glory of natural selection and is so confoundedly doubtful.
JDH laid too much stress on importance of crossing with respect to origin of species; but certainly it is important in keeping forms stable.
If only Owen could be excluded from Council of Royal Society Falconer would be good to put in. CD must come down to London to see what he can do.
Falconer’s article in Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence of species, but he does not like natural selection.
Sends Lythrum salicaria diagram.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 [Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 173, 279b; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Hooker letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3822 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes". Bates’s paper is …
- … D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). However, he …
- … Ever yours affec ly — | C. Darwin Asa Gray’s letter to you is fine excuse for writing. — …
- … 26 November 1862 and n. 2). See letter from Asa Gray, 10 November 1862 and n. 14. See …
- … Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, [3–]4 September [1862] ). A similar …
- … example, Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 28 July [1862] and n. 16, and [ …
- … published. Asa Gray enclosed a set of proof-sheets for CD with his letter of 10 November …
- … Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] ). Hooker discussed A. Gray 1862e in his reply to this letter ( …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …