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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
