To Asa Gray 7 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2645 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … May [1859] and 28 [December 1859] , and to Asa Gray , 11 November [1859] and 24 December [ …
- … Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] ). Several months earlier CD had read proof-sheets of the concluding section of the paper, sent to him by Joseph Dalton Hooker (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 …
- … Gray, Asa. 1858–9. Diagnostic characters of new species of phænogamous plants, collected in Japan by Charles Wright, botanist of the US North Pacific Exploring Expedition … With observations upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
From Asa Gray 23 January 1860
Summary
American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2663 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Summary
Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 November [1859] ). Gray refers to James David Forbes , who had investigated the structure and movement of glaciers at length. Controversy arose between Forbes and Agassiz over an alleged want of recognition on Forbes’s part of Agassiz’s previous work on the structure of glaciers. See letters from Asa …
Author
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
