From American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28 January 1874
Summary
CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]
| Author: | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9257A |
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- … American Academy of Arts and Sciences Darwin, C. R. …
- … From American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28 January 1874 …
- … DAR 230: 37 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Boston 28 Jan 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305 . ] …
- … H onorary M ember of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the Section Geology, …
To J. P. Cooke 20 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for his election as Foreign Honorary Member.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Parsons Cooke |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Letterbook 07-36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9305 |
To Charles Lyell 2 February [1861]
Summary
Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3054 |
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- … May 1860. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences n.s. 8 (pt 1) (1861): 97– …
- … 1861. ] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5 (1860–2): 102–10. …
- … in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5 (1860–2): 102, Agassiz …
- … several meetings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1860 (see Correspondence …
- … made at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 8 January 1861 and …
- … the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Bowen 1861 ). At the same …
[Gray, Asa.] 1884. Oswald Heer. [Obituary.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 19 (1883–4): 556–9.
Mann, Horace. 1866. Enumeration of Hawaiian plants. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 7 (1865–8): 143–235.
Andersson, Nils Johan. 1858. Salices Boreali-Americanæ: a synopsis of North American willows. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4 (1860): 50–78.
Gray, Asa. 1870. Revision of the North American Polemoniaceae. [Read 14 June 1870.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 8 (1873): 247–82.
From S. R. S. Norton and C. E. Norton to H. E. Darwin 21 August [1871]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s title is "Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
| Author: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton; Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7914 |
Wyman, Jeffries. 1854. [Cause of contractility in some vegetable tissues.] [Read 8 November 1854.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 (1852–7): 167–8.
Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1872. Australian kinship. [Read 12 March 1872.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 8 (1868–73): 412–38.
To J. D. Hooker [17 July 1860]
Summary
Asa Gray’s articles in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10 Apr 1860] excellent; considering asking Athenæum to reprint them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2878 |
From Asa Gray 16 June 1874
Summary
AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".
Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].
It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.
Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9492 |
Gray, Asa. 1863i. A revision and arrangement (mainly by the fruit) of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 (1862–5): 188–236.
Gray, Asa. 1880a. Contributions to North American botany. I. Notes on some Compositæ. II. Some species of Asclepias. III. A new genus of Gentianaceæ. IV. Miscellaneæ of the North American flora. [Read 9 June 1880.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences n.s. 8 (1880–1): 78–108.
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Asa Gray in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
