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From Asa Gray   3 February 1878

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AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].

Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.

Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.

[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Feb 1878
Classmark:  DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11343

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  • … CD described; see A. Gray 1877 and letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January 1878 and n. 11. …
  • … inaccuracy; see letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January 1878 and n. 11. He had previously …

To Asa Gray   15 August 1878

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Climbing plants.

Requests seeds of Echinocystis lobata for Hugo de Vries.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  15 Aug 1878
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (124)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11659

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  • … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 and n. 11). CD’s notes on his experiments …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   2 August [1878]

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Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  2 Aug [1878]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11637

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  • … Dyer, 11 May 1878 and n. 5. CD had visited Kew on 22 January 1878 ( letter to Asa Gray, …
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