To Asa Gray 8 January 1873
Summary
Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.
Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728 |
From Asa Gray 25 February 1873
Summary
Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 183; Nature, 27 March 1873, p. 404 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8786 |
To Asa Gray 11 March [1873]
Summary
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8806 |
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