From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
From Asa Gray 27 September 1877
Summary
Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11155 |
From Asa Gray 22 December 1876
Summary
Discusses some dimorphic plants.
Sends specimens of Rhamnus but his few specimens of Leucosmia are very poor.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B36–7, B74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10731 |
From Asa Gray 30 March 1877
Summary
Lithospermum longiflorum has cleistogamous flowers and, unlike other species of genus, it is not dimorphic.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Asa Gray, 8 March 1877 . Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel’s edition of Carolus Linnaeus’s Systema vegetabilium classified of species of Lithospermum (Sprengel ed. 1825–8, 1: 543–7); it identified five species as synonymous with Batschia species. Lithospermum longiflorum (Pursh) Spreng. and Pentalophus longiflorus (Pursh) DC are synonyms of Lithospermum incisum (fringed gromwell). In the third thousand of Forms of flowers 2d ed. (1884, p. v), Francis Darwin …
From Asa Gray 22 May 1877
Summary
Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10969 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 , n. 2. In Forms of flowers , p. 3, CD cautioned that mere variability in the floral organs did not automatically mean the forms were truly distinct. The diagram is reproduced at 80 per cent of its original size. Forms of flowers 2d ed. , p. xix, edited by Francis Darwin , …
From Asa Gray 6 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].
Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.
Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10880 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter of 18 February [1877] . Benjamin Silliman Jr was one of the proprietors and editors of the journal. Gray was working on his Synoptical flora of North America ( A. Gray 1878–84 ). Cross and self fertilisation ; see n. 2, above. Gray’s wife, Jane Loring Gray , had visited Charles Eliot Norton and his mother, Catherine Eliot Norton , where she found out about the death of Francis Darwin’ …
