From Asa Gray 10 November 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3799 |
From Asa Gray 17 November 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3811 |
From Asa Gray 24 November 1862
Summary
Gives reference to his observations on tendrils [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4: 98–9].
Notes cases in which the pollen of the fertilising plant affects the form of the fruit of the fertilised plant, e.g., gourds and maize.
Discusses the Civil War and the attitudes of the English press.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3823 |
From Asa Gray 9 December 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3850 |
From Asa Gray 29 December 1862
Summary
Encloses maize seeds.
Has heard of a butterfly with pollinia of Platanthera stuck to it.
Comments on AG’s notes ["Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50].
"Precocious fertilisation".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3882 |
From Asa Gray 27 January 1863
Summary
Discusses the ill-will between England and U. S.
Considers the bases for deciding which plant species are "high" and which "low".
Comments on Alphonse de Candolle’s paper on oaks ["Étude sur l’espèce", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110].
Encloses S. H. Scudder’s letter on Lepidoptera and fertilisation of orchids which identifies a butterfly with Platanthera pollinia adhering to it. Jokingly applies natural selection to butterflies acted on by orchid pollinia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 129, 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3950 |
From Asa Gray 22–30 March 1863
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s article on the supernatural [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Has heard that the Incas married their sisters; this may be worth investigating as a case of inbreeding.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22–30 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4056 |
From Asa Gray 11 April 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4081 |
From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4089 |
From Asa Gray 20 April 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4112 |
From Asa Gray 26 May 1863
Summary
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4186 |
From Asa Gray [10–16] June [1863]
Summary
Possible dimorphism in Phlox.
Knows of no U. S. law prohibiting marriage of cousins.
Gives references to papers on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10–16] June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4198 |
From Asa Gray 7 July 1863
Summary
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 127, 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4234 |
From Asa Gray 21 July 1863
Summary
Gives some observations on Drosera.
Comments on Richard Owen’s "transmutation theory" in his aye-aye paper [Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 5 (1866): 33–101].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 128, 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4248 |
From Asa Gray 1 September 1863
Summary
Sees difficulties in adhering to the concept of design in nature.
Is surprised at Hooker’s and Daniel Oliver’s ignorance regarding spontaneous movements of tendrils.
CD should continue his work on climbing plants, "it will be fruitful in your hands".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 108; DAR 165: 139, 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4288 |
From Asa Gray 23 November 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4346 |
From Asa Gray 16 February 1864
Summary
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 |
From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4558 |
From Asa Gray 3 October 1864
Summary
Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.
Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4625 |
From Asa Gray 5 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4699 |
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