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From Asa Gray   9 November 1861

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Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.

Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Nov 1861
Classmark:  DAR 110 (ser. 2): 63–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3313

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  • 12 (1861): pp.  420–1). Thomas Colley Grattan was the British consul in Boston from 1838 to 1846. This information does not occur in the extant letters from George Bentham

From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker   4 January 1861

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Comments on the travels of JDH.

Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.

Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Jan 1861
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3041A

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  • George Bentham on Genera plantarum is documented in Stearn 1956 , and Hooker’s work on the volume began in earnest in March 1860 (see Correspondence vol.  8, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 12  …
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