From Asa Gray 18 May 1862
Summary
Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."
Details of U. S. orchids.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3559 |
From Asa Gray 4 August 1862
Summary
Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3679 |
From Asa Gray 20 April 1863
Summary
AG’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4112 |
From Asa Gray 3 October 1864
Summary
Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.
Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4625 |
From Asa Gray 29 December 1862
Summary
Encloses maize seeds.
Has heard of a butterfly with pollinia of Platanthera stuck to it.
Comments on AG’s notes ["Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50].
"Precocious fertilisation".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3882 |
From Asa Gray 28 December 1875
Summary
AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]
and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].
Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10329 |
From Asa Gray 1 June 1857
Summary
Comments on species with disjoined ranges; does not feel, despite CD’s expectations, that they tend to belong to small families.
Gives the proportion of U. S. trees in which the sexes are separate [see Natural selection, p. 62].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 8: 47bA |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2098 |
From Asa Gray 31 December 1861
Summary
Discusses dimorphism and suggests CD investigate Valeriana.
Praises CD’s views with respect to the U. S. Civil War and relations with England. Worsening relations between Britain and U. S.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 65, DAR 165: 104–105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3354 |
From Asa Gray 17 January 1865
Summary
New herbarium is finished.
Congratulations on Copley Medal.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747 |
From Asa Gray 7 May 1866
Summary
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5081 |
From Asa Gray 24 July 1865
Summary
Is reading CD’s "Climbing plants".
The Civil War is ended; slavery is dead.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4877 |
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- … 13). Gray had sent CD seeds of Specularia perfoliata , which CD referred to as Campanula perfoliata , in 1863, but CD had inadvertently destroyed them and requested more seeds in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] and n. 16; see also Correspondence vols. 10 and 11 …
From Asa Gray 5 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4699 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 November 1864, p. 10). Gray also refers to the 1812–14 war between the United States and Britain. The United States had declared war on Britain partly on the grounds that its own policy of neutrality was disregarded in the seizure of United States ships by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (see Hickey 1989 , pp. 12–24, 44). See letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] and n. 13. …
From Asa Gray 10 October 1866
Summary
Does not think he can persuade American publishers to reprint [4th English ed. of] Origin in U. S. Suggests Murray supply copies of it and the new book [Variation] to the American market.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5237 |
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- … 11). Acorus calamus is native to North America ( Mabberley 1997 ). CD had reported to Gray the early results of his experiments on the relative growth and vigour of seedlings raised from cross-fertilised and self-fertilised plants; these indicated that the crossed seedlings were significantly larger than the seedlings from self-fertilised plants (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and nn. 13 …
From Asa Gray 15 July [1862]
Summary
Observations on Platanthera.
Possibility of trimorphism in Mertensia.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3659 |
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- … 13, below), and to his comments on the subject in the letter to Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] . The paper on which the enclosure is written is different from that of the rest of the letter, and may be part of the ‘over sheet’ referred to by Gray. Gray had suggested that the dimorphic plant Mitchella repens would be a good case for CD to experiment upon (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 …
From Asa Gray 6 November 1865
Summary
Discusses "Climbing plants" and his own abstract of it.
CD should publish results of self-fertilising dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4930 |
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- … 11 October 1865, pp. 4833–60. The ‘letter’ or ‘lecture’ has not been identified; however, Russell issued several statements following the decree made by the US president, Abraham Lincoln , on 22 September 1862, which gave freedom, effective from 1 January 1863, to slaves in the states that were currently at war with the Union. In a memorandum published by the Foreign Office and circulated to Cabinet ministers on 13 …
