To Asa Gray 19 January [1863]
Summary
Comments on his own review of Bates’s butterfly paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thanks AG for information on Platanthera.
Has been wasting more time with Melastomataceae; can find no nectar in Monochaetum; is there any in Rhexia?
Hopes Lincoln’s "fiat against Slavery" will have some effect.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3927 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … found, but see the letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] . Gray was one of the editors …
- … on CD’s behalf (see letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 6 …
- … 1863 (see letter from George Bentham, 16 January 1863 ). Citing Planchon 1847–8 , CD described L. lewisii as bearing, on the same plant, some flowers with anthers and stigmas of the same height, and others with styles either longer or shorter than the stamens; this he called ‘a unique case’ (p. 82; Collected papers 2: 104–5). CD does not appear to have conducted the trials to which he refers; instead, John Scott , …
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1994 ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . See letter from John Scott, [1– …
- … 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [ Collected papers 2: 78–80]. Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia ; John Scott …
- … 1863, pp. 554–5 (see letter from W. H. Dixon, 16 April 1863) . CD refers to Henry Walter Bates’s The naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ). Gray had been puzzled by the type of self-pollination in Gymnadenia (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 22 September 1862 and n. 13). He published comments on Gymnadenia in A. Gray 1863b . John Scott …
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
To Asa Gray 23 February [1863]
Summary
Recommends Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Quotes praise of AG’s pamphlet [see 2938].
Comments on U. S. politics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (55) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4006 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … experiments (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n. 9). With his letter of …
- … 1863 . Letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . The enclosures referred to have not been identified. Gray’s letter of 27 January 1863 also included a letter from Samuel Hubbard Scudder to Gray (see n. 5, below), and a note from Gray commenting on Scudder’s letter. Gray sent CD maize seeds from New England with his letter of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD refers to John Scott …
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 |
To Asa Gray 31 May [1863]
Summary
AG’s review of Alphonse de Candolle’s paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 430–44] is excellent.
Does not AG consider that orchids oppose Oswald Heer’s view that species arise suddenly by monstrosities?
Infers that AG cannot explain the angles of phyllotaxy; has been looking at Carl Nägeli on the subject.
Reports Gaston de Saporta’s belief that natural selection will ultimately triumph in France.
Is working slowly at Variation.
Reports his observations on the imperfect flowers of Viola and Oxalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4196 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863], CD had written: But it is known that several plants, such as Violets, Campanulas, Oxalis, &c. , produce two kinds of flowers: one sort adapted for self-fertilisation, and the other sort for fertilisation by insect agency or other means. CD made further observations on Oxalis acetosella between 31 March and May 1863 (see letter to John Scott, …
