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From Asa Gray   29 July 1875

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Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 165: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10099

From Asa Gray   28 December 1875

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AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]

and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].

Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Dec 1875
Classmark:  DAR 165: 189
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10329

From Asa Gray   12 October 1876

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Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Oct 1876
Classmark:  DAR 165: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10639

From Asa Gray   12 November 1876

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Thanks for sheets of new book. Intends to talk about it at a scientific social club meeting.

Is amused to read CD’s criticisms of his own style, as in the U. S. it is spoken of as being as faultless as his temper. Corrects a reference.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 165: 191
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10668

From Asa Gray   5 December 1876

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Dimorphism and cleistogamy in Hottonia.

AG wants new, unambiguous term for what is now referred to as "dimorphism", "dioecio-dimorphism", or "heterostyly"; proposes "heterogone".

Sends an excerpt from Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 2 (June 1871) on Hottonia inflata.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Dec 1876
Classmark:  DAR 165: 192, DAR 111: A92
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10699

From Asa Gray   22 December 1876

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Discusses some dimorphic plants.

Sends specimens of Rhamnus but his few specimens of Leucosmia are very poor.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Dec 1876
Classmark:  DAR 110: B36–7, B74–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10731

From Asa Gray   6 February 1877

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Sends specimen of Gilia aggregata and will try to get Phlox subulata.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Feb 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 193
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10830

From Asa Gray   10 February 1877

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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

From Asa Gray   6 March 1877

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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

From Asa Gray   30 March 1877

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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   22 May 1877

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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

From Asa Gray   10 June 1877

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Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 197
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10994

From Asa Gray   27 September 1877

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Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Sept 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 198
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11155

From Asa Gray   3 February 1878

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AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].

Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.

Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.

[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Feb 1878
Classmark:  DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11343

From Asa Gray   6 November 1879

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Will try to get Ipomoea and Megarrhiza seeds for CD.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 165: 200
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12296

From Asa Gray   12 January 1880

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Sends some cotton seeds for CD.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 165: 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12416

From Asa Gray   3 February 1880

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Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 209.6: 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12455

From Asa Gray   11 March 1880

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Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 209.6: 202
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12532

From Asa Gray   [1 April 1880]

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Germination and root of Ipomoea.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Apr 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 209.6: 203
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12556

From Asa Gray   4 April 1880

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Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Apr 1880
Classmark:  DAR 209.6: 204–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12562
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