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To Asa Gray   15 March [1862]

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Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.

"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  15 Mar [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3473

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  • … year is established by the relationship to the letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 . …
  • … D. Hooker, 26 [March  1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . Winkler trans.   …
  • … W.  Bates, 13 January [1862] . See letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . CD probably …
  • … to Asa Gray, 11 December [1860] , and Correspondence vol.  9, letter
  • Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 . CD refers to Gray’s pamphlet on natural selection and natural theology ( A.  Gray 1861 ); CD and Gray had shared the cost of having the pamphlet printed (see Correspondence vol.  8, letter
  • Asa Gray, 17 February [1861] ). Nicholas Trübner was head of the publishing firm, Trübner and Co. , which acted as the London agent for distribution of the pamphlet in Britain. See also Correspondence vol.  9, Appendix III. CD refers to Bronn trans.  1863 (see letter
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition

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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…

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  • … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …