From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [July 1863]
Summary
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4254 |
To Asa Gray 4 August [1863]
Summary
Anticipated AG’s attitude on design in orchids. Does he not think that the variations that gave rise to fancy pigeon varieties were accidental?
Has been working hard at Lythrum
and spontaneous movements of tendrils.
Defends Drosera as a "sagacious animal" but does not know whether he will ever publish on it.
Comments on political situation in U. S.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4262 |
From J. E. Gray 13 April 1866
Summary
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5056 |
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- … 1863 ). Beluga borealis is a synonym of Delphinapterus leucas , the beluga. Tursio is now known as Tursiops , the genus of bottle-nosed dolphins. Gray may refer to the ichthyologist Jonathan Couch . A frequent contributor to natural history journals, he collected extensive materials for a book on the British Cetacea (the order includes porpoises), which was never completed ( Couch 1871 , p. 17). The account of the porpoise has not been found. Gray refers to Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum ( J. E. …
From J. D. Hooker [27 or 28 December 1862]
Summary
Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.
JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.
JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 93–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3891 |
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To J. D. Hooker 24 [November 1862]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes".
Bates’s paper is admirable. The act of segregation of varieties into species was never so plainly brought forth.
CD is a little sorry that his present work is leading him to believe rather more in the direct action of physical conditions. Regrets it because it lessens the glory of natural selection and is so confoundedly doubtful.
JDH laid too much stress on importance of crossing with respect to origin of species; but certainly it is important in keeping forms stable.
If only Owen could be excluded from Council of Royal Society Falconer would be good to put in. CD must come down to London to see what he can do.
Falconer’s article in Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence of species, but he does not like natural selection.
Sends Lythrum salicaria diagram.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 [Nov 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 173, 279b; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Hooker letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3822 |
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To Asa Gray 26[–7] November [1862]
Summary
Discusses AG’s article ["Dimorphism", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 419–20]. Does not like the terms "dioecio-dimorphism" or "precocious fertilisation". Discusses the separation of sexes in plants; cannot doubt that hermaphroditism is the aboriginal state.
Discusses AG’s observations on orchids and his review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 26[–7] Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3830 |
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- … 1863] . See ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , p. 170 ( Collected papers 2: 106). See n. 10, above. See also letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] . See also letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . CD’s notes of his observations on Viola canina , made in May 1862, are in DAR 111: 3–5. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 May [1862] , letter to W. E. …
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