To Asa Gray 21 August [1862]
Summary
Emma and Leonard have scarlet fever.
Houstonia seems "a grand case"; J. T. Rothrock should publish his observations on the two pollens and the reciprocal action of two hermaphrodites.
Rhexia glandulosa offers nothing odd, but Heterocentron will turn out something marvellous like Lythrum.
Would like to know what AG thinks of last chapter of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3692 |
To Asa Gray 9 August [1862]
Summary
Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3685 |
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To Asa Gray 21 April [1862]
Summary
Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3513 |
To Asa Gray 14 July [1862]
Summary
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 14 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3656 |
To Asa Gray 23[–4] July [1862]
Summary
AG’s orchid observations are admirable.
Owen has lectured on birds’ descending from one form.
French criticism of CD’s Primula paper.
Only AG has seen that Orchids was "a ""flank movement"" on the enemy".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23[–4] July [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3662 |
To Asa Gray 23 November [1862]
Summary
Recommends H. W. Bates’s paper on butterflies of Amazonia ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] is eagerly awaited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3820 |
To Asa Gray 10–20 June [1862]
Summary
Thanks AG for praise of Orchids and his notes on several American species of orchid. Comments on AG’s observations.
Is experimenting [on dimorphism] with Rhexia and Melastoma.
Asks AG’s opinion of a paper by Thomas Meehan ["On the uniformity of relative characters between allied species of European and American trees", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1862): 10–13] which is the best case of the apparently direct action of the conditions of life CD has seen.
Requests postage stamp for his ill son [Leonard].
Thanks AG for observations on Cypripedium and gives recent observations of his own.
Arethusa is very pretty; structure seems like that of Vanilla.
Finds the little (so-called imperfect) flowers of Viola and Oxalis curious: the pollen-grains emit their tubes whilst within the anthers, and they travel in straight lines right to the stigmas.
Sympathises with events in the U. S.
Reports on French translation of Origin by Mlle C. Royer, "one of the cleverest & oddest women in Europe".
Alphonse de Candolle says he wants direct proof of natural selection; "he will have to wait a long time for that".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10–20 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3595 |
To Asa Gray [3–]4 September [1862]
Summary
Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].
Trimorphism in Lythrum.
Bee behaviour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | [3–]4 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (68) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3710 |