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From Asa Gray   2 February 1872

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Notes the occurrence in U. S. of "vermiform piles" produced by earthworms.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Feb 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 178
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8194

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  • letter to Asa Gray, 15 January 1872 . CD had worked on Drosera and Dionaea intermittently since 1860 ( …

From Asa Gray   31 May 1872

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Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 May 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 180
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8363

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  • letter to Asa Gray, 25 February [1864] ). Gray refers to Mark Twain’s ‘The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County’ (in Twain 1867 ). CD published his observations on Drosera and Dionaea in 1875 in Insectivorous plants. He had been working on them since about 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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  • … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …