From Asa Gray [2 June 1862]
Summary
Discusses heterostyly in Houstonia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3588 |
From Asa Gray [late June 1862]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3631 |
From Asa Gray 2–3 July 1862
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2–3 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3637 |
From Asa Gray 15 July [1862]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3659 |
From Asa Gray 21 July 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3661 |
From Asa Gray 29 July 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3670 |
From Asa Gray 4 August 1862
Summary
Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3679 |
From Asa Gray 18–19 August 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18–19 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 111, 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3688 |
From Asa Gray 5 September 1862
Summary
Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: 81, DAR 165: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3712 |
From Asa Gray 22 September 1862
Summary
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 118, 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3736 |
From Asa Gray 4 and 13 October 1862
Summary
Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 and 13 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3752 |
From Asa Gray 27 October 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3785 |
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 |