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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

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  • … found, but see the letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] . Gray was one of the editors …
  • … experiments on the species on CD’s behalf (see letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] ). See also letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and …
  • 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

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  • … experiments on the species on CD’s behalf (see letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] ). See also Forms of flowers , p.  101. Following …
  • 1863 ). See also Baker 1965 , pp.  147–50. Although CD did not acquire seed of Linum lewisii , John Scott , …

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

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  • … Garden, Edinburgh ( R.  Desmond 1994 ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n.  13. CD’s notes on this experiment, …
  • 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [ Collected papers 2: 78–80]. Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia ; John Scott
  • 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   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

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  • … and May 1863 (see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] , and experimental notes in DAR …

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

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  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] , and this volume, memorandum …

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

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  • … experiments (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  9). With his letter of …
  • 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

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  • Scott’s tabulated results (p.  106) suggested that the self-pollinated non-dimorphic red cowslip produced more seed, and was therefore likely to be more fertile, than the long-styled cowslip crossed with the short-styled cowslip (representing a ‘heteromorphic union’). Scott discussed the non-dimorphic cowslip in his letter of 21 May [1863] , and enclosed seeds from this plant with his letter of [26 July – 2 August 1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11). See also letter from John
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