To J. D. Hooker 18 November [1856]
Summary
CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH.
Role of struggle in forming species in retreat from advancing glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1991 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH. Role of struggle in …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 (see n. 2, …
- … below). A letter to Hooker from Asa Gray , sent by Gray to CD enclosed in the letter …
- … from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . Letter …
- … from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 November 1856] . This …
To Asa Gray 24 November [1856]
Summary
Variability of naturalised plants.
Distribution of Arctic/alpine plant species.
Limits to the northern range of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 24 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1999 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Dated by the reference to the letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . …
- … Gray 1856–7 . See letter to Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] . See letter from Asa Gray, 23 …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . See letter …
- … to Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] and n. 5. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 November [ …
To Asa Gray 14 July [1856]
Summary
Asks whether Allegheny Mountains are sufficiently continuous so that plants could travel from north to south along them.
Hopes AG’s work on geographical distribution is progressing, as he has questions on plants common to Europe which do not range up to Arctic.
Are intermediate varieties less numerous in individuals than the varieties they connect?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 14 July [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1926 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s comments in letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1856] . Letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] . …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] . …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] , and the letters exchanged between Gray and CD in …
- … letter to Sir W. J. Hooker. London Journal of Botany 1 (1842): 1–14, 217–37; 2 (1843): 113-25; 3 (1844): 230–42. Gray, Asa. …
From Asa Gray 4 November 1856
Summary
Outlines the ranges of northern U. S. species common to Europe. Hopes to investigate the resemblances between the floras of the north-eastern U. S. and western Europe. Discusses routes by which alpine plants appear to have reached U. S.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1982 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … In his letter to Asa Gray, 24 August [1856] , CD had indicated that he considered the …
- … No . give Asa Gray’s facts, far more accurate)’ and wrote in the margin, ‘dele’. Letter …
- … Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] ). When he received the figures given by Gray in this letter, …
- … to Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] ). A. Gray 1856a . See letter …
- … Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] , in which CD referred to the first part of A. Gray 1856–7 . CD had asked Gray for some indication of the genera (not orders) to which the introduced species belonged (see letter …
- … Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] , n. 6. Gray refers to [J. D. Hooker] 1856, a review of A. de Candolle 1855 . CD forwarded Gray’s letter …
To Asa Gray 12 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks AG for the first part of his "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403]
and for information on social and varying plants.
Would like to know number of genera of introduced plants in U. S.
Is surprised at some affinities of northern U. S. flora and asks for any climatic explanations.
Asks what proportion of genera common to U. S. and Europe are mundane.
Is glad AG will work out the northern ranges of the European species and the ranges of species with regard to size of genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 12 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1973 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … added, ‘Certainly J.D.H. ’. See also letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . Gray did not …
- … Dated by the reference to A. Gray 1856–7 and to the letter from Asa …
- … Gray, 23 September 1856 . Letter from Asa Gray, 23 September 1856 . A. Gray 1856–7 . CD’s …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . See Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. D. …
To Asa Gray 24 August [1856]
Summary
Rarity of intermediate varieties.
Variability of introduced plants.
Ranges of plants common to Europe and U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 24 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1944 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Letter from Asa Gray, [early August 1856] , which CD had marked ‘Received Aug 20 th . / …
- … CD later replaced the figures with information supplied by Gray (see letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 14 July [1856] . CD discussed the point in Natural selection , p. 268, giving Hewett Cottrell Watson , Gray, and Wollaston as his sources. Letter …
- … Gray, 4 November [1856] ). The number 321 refers to the number of species found in both North America and Europe, as given in a list in A. Gray 1856a , p. xxviii. This page had been forwarded to CD enclosed in the letter from Asa …
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1856
Summary
Continued debate on formation of species as a result of retreat from glaciers.
JDH suggests internal powers of species modification, which he knows CD abhors.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 111–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1995 |
From Asa Gray 23 September 1856
Summary
Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World.
Distribution of U. S. species common to Europe.
Gives Theodor Engelmann’s opinion on the relative variability of indigenous and introduced plants and notes the effects of man’s settlement on the numbers and distribution of indigenous plants.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1959 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 June or 3 July 1856]
Summary
Can no longer make out story of NW. American plants; consulting Asa Gray.
Questionable validity of seed-salting experiments.
Aristolochia and Viscum seem to shed pollen before flower opens.
Ray Society should only do translations.
Thomas Thomson in India has rediscovered Aldrovanda, a rare relative of Drosera.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 June or 3 July] 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1911 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1856]
Summary
CD’s predicament with continental extensions: they would remove argument for multiple creations, yet he opposes the doctrine. Lyell will not express an opinion on this.
Lyell fears mutability would lead to more specific names.
Encloses copy of letters to Lyell [1910 and 1917].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 July [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 172, 165, and 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1933 |
From J. D. Dana 8 December 1856
Summary
Agassiz has informed him that the mice and rats of Mammoth Cave are American in type.
Alludes to CD’s doubt of the principle that "progress of life on the globe is parallel with the development in different tribes". Outlines his own ideas on the "unfolding of the type-idea" and its "parallelism with the law of development in the embryo".
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 378 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2016 |
From H. C. Watson 5 June 1856
Summary
Answers CD’s questions about plants common to U. S. and Britain and their distribution in Europe.
Variability of agrarian weeds.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1891 |
To James Dwight Dana 21 December [1856]
Summary
Thanks for sending paper on geological development (Dana 1856). Discusses infertility of species. Discusses first part of Asa Gray’s paper (A. Gray 1856–7). Thanks for note on the Cave Rat. Discusses a new species of fossil cirripede, in the genus Chthamalus. Explains his interest in pigeon breeding.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 21 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2003) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2020F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Asa Gray and the first part of A. Gray 1856–7 (‘Statistics of the flora of the northern United States’); see Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
- … Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] . CD’s annotated copy of A. Gray 1856–7 is in DAR 135 (3). CD refers to John Lubbock and Lubbock 1857 . CD refers to Thomas Henry Huxley and T. H. Huxley 1856–7 , 14: 354. See Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
To Asa Gray 2 May [1856]
Summary
Suggests affinities of the U. S. flora that he considers would be worth investigating. Wants to know the ranges of species in large and small genera.
Questions AG on naturalised plants; whether any are social in U. S. which are not so elsewhere and how variable they are compared with indigenous species. Would like to know of any differences in the variability of species at different points of their ranges and also the physical states of plants at the extremes of their ranges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1863 |
From H. C. Watson 20 June 1856
Summary
Conveys [? J. T. I. Boswell-]Syme’s opinion of variability of agrarian weeds and ranges of species common to U. S. and W. Europe. The Hispano-Hibernian connection.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1907 |
From Asa Gray [early August 1856]
Summary
Believes intermediate varieties are generally less numerous in individuals than the two states that they connect.
Discusses the difficulties of deciding what is the typical form of a species
and gives some opinions on the variability of introduced species compared with indigenous species.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [early Aug 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1934 |
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Watson, H. C. | (2) |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …