To Asa Gray 11 March [1873]
Summary
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8806 |
From C. L. Brace [August? 1873]
Summary
Reports that the ability to move ears is common among the Sioux.
| Author: | Charles Loring Brace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Aug? 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 273 (fragile letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8717 |
From A. W. Bennett 16 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8811 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 June 1873
Summary
Leaves Wednesday with Huxley for holiday.
Family news.
He too thinks well of Bentham’s address.
Asa Gray elected Foreign F.R.S.
G. J. Allman is being proposed for Royal Medal by JDH and Huxley.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 157–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8958 |
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- … Asa Gray was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London in 1873 ( Record of the Royal Society of London ). George James Allman had sent CD the proof-sheets of A monograph of the gymnoblastic or tubularian hydroids ( Allman 1871–2 ). See Correspondence vol. 19, letter from G. J. Allman, 4 November 1871 . Allman was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society at the anniversary meeting in November 1873 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 11). …
Author
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
