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From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1862
Summary
Will see to Masdevallia and Bonatea.
Domestic matters.
Lyell’s health.
CD’s eczema.
Hopes CD will solve the mystery of Melastoma.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 44–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3636 |
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 E. A. Darwin 2 July [1862]
Summary
Never mind the letter to the Geological Society; the museum got the book for Carlyle.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 7–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3638 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
