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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, Appendix IV). Letter from J. D. Dana, 4 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). In 1859, James Dwight Dana had suffered a nervous breakdown from which he never fully recovered (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Charles Lyell, 29 [December 1859] , and letter to J. D. Dana, 30 December [1859] ). CD refers to his twelve-year-old son, Leonard Darwin . …
