From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4558 |
To Asa Gray 28 May [1864]
Summary
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4511 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … due to visit him in July (see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 ). No letter from Wright …
- … or lichen-covered trees (see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 and n. 5, and ‘Climbing …
- … make this statement; see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . Voandzeia is a genus in the …
- … Willis 1973 ). See also letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . For CD’s published discussion …
- … Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 and n. 9. Jane Loring Gray had been particularly unwell during the winter of 1863–4. See Correspondence vol. 11, …
- … Gray sent specimens of Campanula perfoliata ( Specularia perfoliata ) in 1863; however, CD put the specimens in warm water to soak the flowers before he realised that they had seeds. Evidently the seeds failed to germinate (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa …
To Asa Gray 13 September [1864]
Summary
Has finished Climbing plants;
resuming work on Variation.
Sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332].
Has received review of Herbert Spencer but cannot believe AG wrote it unless he has muddled his brains with metaphysics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (89) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4611 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . According to CD’s journal, the manuscript of ‘ …
- … 10, letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa …
- … 11, Appendix II, and this volume, Appendix II). CD began writing Variation in 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8, Appendix II). The reference is to a review of Spencer 1864b ; the review was by Chauncey Wright ([Wright] 1864b). See letter from Asa Gray, …
From Asa Gray 5 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4699 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa Gray, 11 April [1861] . Gray refers to the unsigned …
- … on Amphicarpaea , see the letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 and n. 9. For CD’s interest …
- … Crüger, 21 January 1864 and n. 2, and letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] and nn. 11–16. …
- … 1864 (see letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 and nn. 11 and 12). Gray refers to the …
To Louis Agassiz 12 April 1864
Summary
Thanks LA for Methods of study [1863].
Is gratified that he has not taken a personal dislike to CD, though he is strongly opposed to nearly everything CD has written.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 12 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4460 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 January 1864
Summary
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4376 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … November 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11), Asa Gray referred to Wallace’s review ( Wallace …
- … Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 ( …
- … Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 and nn. 12 and 14. Agassiz 1863b . Gray noted: ‘It is announced, you may see in the preface, that this little book completely does away with all “ Darwinism ’” (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [18 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
From Charles Wright to Asa Gray 20, 25, and 26 March and 1 April 1864
Summary
Describes the flower and mode of action of a particular orchid.
Has been examining Spiranthes and is experimenting to see whether insects are necessary for its fertilisation.
It seems that Oncidium is designed so as not to be fertilised.
Author: | Charles Wright |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20, 25 and 26 Mar 1864 and 1 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4433 |
From Asa Gray 3 October 1864
Summary
Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.
Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4625 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and library. See letters from Asa Gray , 16 February 1864 and 11 July 1864 , and Dupree …
- … 601). See also letter from Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 and n. 11. A new building had been …
- … 1864a ). See letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and nn. 7 and 11–15. Gray’s review …
- … the letter from Asa Gray, 1 September 1863 and n. 16 ( Correspondence vol. 11). CD had …
To William Erasmus Darwin [1 May 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5127 |
From William Henry Harvey 19 May 1864
Summary
Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4503 |
From Asa Gray 16 February 1864
Summary
Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].
Death of Francis Boott.
U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4409 |
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B107–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4556 |
To Frederick Smith [c. 17 February 1864?]
Summary
Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3365 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
From C. V. Naudin 6 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Directs CD to his short memoir on crossing ["De l’hybridité", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 59 (1864): 837–45].
Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4703 |
From B. D. Walsh 7 November 1864
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4663 |
To Asa Gray 29 October [1864]
Summary
Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.
Is plodding on at Variation.
Has added to Climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4647 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Gray, Asa | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Hooker, J. D. | (17) |
Gray, Asa | (9) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Scott, John | (2) |