From Asa Gray [before 3 April 1858]1
[Gives a list of 146 genera taken from A. Gray 1856, indicating those species in each genus that could be considered closely related. CD has added to the manuscript the number of close species in each genus.]2
Of course I suppose most of the above are truly & originally distinct; some are probably not; a few pretty surely not.3
AG.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Gray, Asa. 1848. A manual of the botany of the northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and south to Ohio and Pennsylvania inclusive. Boston and Cambridge: James Monroe and Company. London: John Chapman.
Summary
List of close species taken from AG’s Manual of botany [1848].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2249
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 103
- Physical description
- inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2249,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2249.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
