From Asa Gray 7 July 1863
Summary
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 127, 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4234 |
From Asa Gray 21 July 1863
Summary
Gives some observations on Drosera.
Comments on Richard Owen’s "transmutation theory" in his aye-aye paper [Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 5 (1866): 33–101].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 128, 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4248 |
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- … Asa Gray, 26 June [1863] and nn. 11 and 12. Gray had sent CD observations on and seed of the dimorphic species Houstonia caerulea in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). The reference is to Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s travels , in which Gulliver was tied down to the ground by six-inch-high Lilliputians ( [Swift] 1726 , 1: 7 et seq. ). Since 1860, …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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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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