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To Asa Gray   28 May [1864]

Summary

Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids

– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.

Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.

How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?

He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  28 May [1864]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4511

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  • … J.   D.  Hooker, 20 April 1864 , and letter to J.  D. Hooker, 25 April [1864] and n.  6. ‘ …
  • … III.  See also letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n.  7, and 22 [May 1864] and …
  • … 56–9). See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n.  13. CD discussed the …
  • … and n.  22, and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n.  22. CD discussed Mohl’s …
  • … Oliver] 1864a). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn.  9–10, and letter …
  • … board, see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n.  17. CD also refers to …
  • J.  D. Hooker, 27 [November 1863] , and this volume, letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1864   …

To Asa Gray   25 February [1864]

Summary

Has not worked for six months due to illness.

Has been looking at climbing plants.

Hermann Crüger’s paper shows that CD was right about Catasetum pollination. Crüger’s account of pollination of Coryanthes "beats everything".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  25 Feb [1864]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4415

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  • … this volume, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] and n.  14, and ‘Journal’ ( …
  • … in December 1864 (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 10 December [1864] and n.  6. ). ‘Climbing …

To Asa Gray   13 September [1864]

Summary

Has finished Climbing plants;

resuming work on Variation.

Sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332].

Has received review of Herbert Spencer but cannot believe AG wrote it unless he has muddled his brains with metaphysics.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  13 Sept [1864]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (89)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4611

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  • … to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] , and letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 4  December [1864] and …
  • … for India (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [16 August 1864] , n.  2). In early September  …

To Asa Gray   29 October [1864]

Summary

Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.

Is plodding on at Variation.

Has added to Climbing plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  29 Oct [1864]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4647

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  • … for example, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 10 December [1864] , and CD’ s notes on species of …

To Asa Gray   19 October [1865]

Summary

AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.

Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.

Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  19 Oct [1865]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4919

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  • … Correspondence vol.  12, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 19 [April 1864] and n.  4). In 1865, CD …

To Asa Gray   26 June [1863]

Summary

Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy

and information on marriage laws.

Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.

Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  26 June [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4222

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 25 [June 1863] and n.  2. CD refers to the American Journal of Science and Arts , commonly known as ‘Silliman’s journal’ after its founder, Benjamin Silliman. CD worked extensively on climbing plants during 1863 and 1864, …

To Asa Gray   16 April [1866]

Summary

AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].

Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.

New edition [4th] of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  16 Apr [1866]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5057

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  • 1864 and 1865; he began to report some improvement in September 1865 (see Correspondence vol.  12, and Correspondence vol.  13, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …
  • J.  D.  Hooker, [5 April 1866] and n.  2. The reference is to Caspary 1865a . On CD’s interest in graft-hybrids, see the letter to Robert Caspary, 21 February [1866] and n.  3, and the letter from Robert Caspary, 25 February 1866  and nn.  4 and 9. From 1864, …

To Asa Gray   29 January 1881

Summary

Thanks for AG’s reviews [of Movement in plants] in the Journal and Nation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 21 (1881): 245–9 and Nation 32 (1881): 17–18], especially for AG’s comment about Frank Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  29 Jan 1881
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130b)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13031

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  • … is mentioned in the letter from J. D. Hooker, [4–]6 August 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). …

To Asa Gray   15 August [1865]

Summary

Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".

Thanks for Specularia seed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  15 Aug [1865]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4882

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  • 1864] ). CD refers to Lubbock 1865 , Tylor 1865 , and Lecky 1865 . CD and Joseph Dalton Hooker had already discussed these books (see letters to J.  D. …

To Asa Gray   22 January [1862]

Summary

Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".

U. S. politics.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  22 Jan [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3404

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  • 1864. CD had recently begun to investigate what he believed might be a novel form of dimorphism in the Melastomataceae (see letter from J.  D. Hooker, [ …

To Asa Gray   20 March [1863]

Summary

Discusses the meaning of C. K. Sprengel’s term "dichogamy". Dichogamous plants are functionally monoecious; Primula is functionally dioecious.

Reports Hermann Crüger’s observations of Cattleya and of bees pollinating Catasetum. Crüger will observe Melastomataceae.

Has built a hothouse.

Fears Amsinckia cannot be dimorphic.

Ill health slows his work on Variation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  20 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (58)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4053

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  • 1864, because the plants did not flower abundantly in 1863 (see letters to Asa Gray , 31 May [1863] and 26 June [1863] , and Forms of flowers , p.  125). CD had been suffering ill health since the end of February (see, for example, letter to J.  D. Hooker, …

From Asa Gray   16 February 1864

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Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].

Death of Francis Boott.

U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Feb 1864
Classmark:  DAR 165: 142
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4409

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  • … health sent in his letters to J.  D.  Hooker, [25 January 1864] and [27 January 1864] . …
  • … Boott . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and n.  3. Gray refers to …

From Asa Gray   7 May 1866

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Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.

Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 May 1866
Classmark:  DAR 165: 150
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5081

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  • … Correspondence vol.  12, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n.  13). He had …
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