From Asa Gray 6 February 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10830 |
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- … Gray, Asa Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Asa Gray 6 February 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 193 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 6 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … sheets complete. In haste | Ever Yours | Asa Gray Dont hesitate to ask every thing of me, …
- … family (Polemoniaceae; see letter to Asa Gray, 23 January 1877 and n. 3). See also Forms …
- … subulata (moss phlox), see the letter to Asa Gray, 23 January 1877 and n. 2. Gray had …
- … notice of the book (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Asa Gray, 12 November 1876 ). …
To Asa Gray 18 February [1877]
Summary
Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].
Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10851 |
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- … To Asa Gray 18 February [1877] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (122) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Feb [1877] Asa Gray …
- … 1862 ; see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Asa Gray, 9 August 1876 and n. 4). For CD’s …
- … 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41. See letter from Asa Gray, 6 February 1877 and n. 1. Forms of …
- … of Phaleria disperma ), see the letter to Asa Gray, 3 January 1877 and nn. 1 and 2. …
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. See letter from Asa Gray, 6 February 1877 and n. 1. Gray …
- … notice of Orchids 2d ed. (see letter from Asa Gray, 6 February 1877 and n. 3). The letter …
From Asa Gray 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10837 |
To Asa Gray 23 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AG for card about Pontederia.
Asks for specimens of Phlox subulata and Gilia aggregata to check for dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10811 |
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- … Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (120) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Jan 1877 Asa Gray …
- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Gray, Asa. 1870. Revision of the North American …
- … See Correspondence vol. 18, letter from Asa Gray, 21 November 1870 . Gray’s description of …
From Asa Gray 27 September 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11155 |
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- … DAR 165: 198 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 27 Sept 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and will live in the memory of his attached master and mistress. Yours ever | Asa Gray …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 4 June [1877] . Gray’s name is on the presentation list for Forms …
- … to the Rocky Mountains (see letter from Asa Gray, 10 June 1877 and n. 5). After receiving …
- … See Correspondence vol. 18, letter from Asa Gray, 14 February 1870 , letter from J. L. …
- … Gray, 14 February 1870 , and letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1870] . Gray probably refers to …
To Asa Gray 19 March [1877]
Summary
Sends an informal title-page [for Orchids, 2d ed.].
Appreciates the condolences for Frank [on death of his wife, Amy].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (tipped into Orchids 2d ed., EC85 D2593 862oba) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10901 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Gray, Asa …
- … To Asa Gray 19 March [1877] …
- … into Orchids 2d ed. , EC85 D2593 862oba) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Mar [1877] Asa Gray …
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 6 March 1877 . In his letter of 6 March …
- … was CD’s publisher. See letter from Asa Gray, 6 March 1877 and n. 4; Gray and his wife, …
To Asa Gray 8 March 1877
Summary
Leucosmia burnettiana is in all probability dimorphic. Thinks Gilia is truly heterostyled and Phlox subulata was, perhaps, once heterostyled. Has good evidence of heterostyly in 39 genera from 14 families.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10883 |
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- … Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (117) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Mar 1877 Asa Gray …
- … in ibid. , pp. 118–19. See letter to Asa Gray, 23 January 1877 and n. 2. Phlox subulata is …
- … flowers , pp. 114–15. See also letter to Asa Gray, 3 January 1877 . Gray sent a flower of …
From Asa Gray 10 June 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994 |
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- … 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 …
From Asa Gray 30 March 1877
Summary
Lithospermum longiflorum has cleistogamous flowers and, unlike other species of genus, it is not dimorphic.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918 |
From Asa Gray 6 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].
Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.
Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10880 |
To Asa Gray 4 June [1877]
Summary
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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- … 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 Asa Gray 22 May 1877
Summary
Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10969 |
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- … DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 22 May 1877 Charles Robert …
- … probably not dimorphic ( letter from Asa Gray, 30 March 1877 ). Lithospermum longiflorum …
- … pollen . I will do so. Yours ever | Asa Gray Iowa Agricultural College. | Ames, May 19 th …
To Asa Gray 3 January 1877
Summary
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10768 |
From W. H. Leggett 15 January 1877
Summary
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Author: | William Henry Leggett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10790 |
From C. E. Bessey 28 June 1877
Summary
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 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 October [1877]
Summary
Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 11 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 103–5) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11178 |
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- … had a short & very prosperous note from Asa Gray, who says Hooker is very prosperous & …
- … together in the region over the summer (see letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 ). …
- … year is established by the reference to Asa Gray’s letter (see n. 7, below). CD had asked …
- … from cold ( Movement in plants , p. 3). Asa Gray and Joseph Dalton Hooker were busy …
From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1877
Summary
JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11190 |
From W. W. Bailey [November 1877]
Author: | William Whitman Bailey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11162 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 457–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11195 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [26 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 455–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11210 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Gray, Asa | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Gray, Asa | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
Bessey, C. E. | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
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 …