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From Asa Gray   10 June 1877

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Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 197
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10994

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  • Gray, Asa Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From Asa Gray   10 June 1877 …
  • … DAR 165: 197 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 10 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … may believe me | Always Yours cordially | Asa Gray Top of letter : ‘11 o .15 | 2 o .50’ …
  • … Correspondence vol. 17, letter to Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] ). Joseph Dalton Hooker departed …

To Asa Gray   4 June [1877]

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C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.

Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  4 June [1877]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10982

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Gray, Asa
  • … To Asa Gray   4 June [1877] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (119) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 June [1877] Asa Gray
  • … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1877 . Gray had forwarded a …
  • … incisum , fringed gromwell; see letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1877 ). CD’s manuscript of …

From C. E. Bessey   28 June 1877

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Has heard through Asa Gray of CD’s interest in his work on Lithospermum and Oxalis. Thinks dimorphism in Oxalis is but early stage toward complete separation of sexes.

Author:  Charles Edwin Bessey
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 June 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 178
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11021

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  • … incipient heterostyly ( Bessey 1880 ). See letter from Asa Gray, 30 March 1877 and n. 2. …
  • … Has heard through Asa Gray of CD’s interest in his work on Lithospermum and Oxalis . …
  • … See letter to Asa Gray, 4 June [1877] and n. 2. Bessey’s name appears on CD’s presentation …
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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 …