To Asa Gray 30 June [1874]
Summary
Thanks for Sarracenia, which is as wonderful as any orchid.
Asks AG to observe Pinguicula.
Has read AG’s semi-theological review [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51] with interest
and has obtained the book [C. Hodge, What is Darwinism? (1874)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 30 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9520 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … more digestive fluid. See letters to Asa Gray , 3 June [1874] and 5 June [1874] . CD …
- … between this letter and the letters from Asa Gray , 16 June 1874 and 19 June 1874 (see …
- … 16 June 1874 . See letter to Asa Gray, 3 June [1874] and n. 5. Drosera is the sundew and …
- … Letters from Asa Gray , 16 June 1874 and 19 June 1874 . See letter from Asa Gray, 19 …
- … Hodge’s What is Darwinism? ( Hodge 1874 ; [A. Gray] 1874d; see letter from Asa Gray, 16 …
- … 1874 and nn. 2 and 4. The editor of Nature was Joseph Norman Lockyer . See letter from Asa Gray, …
- … 1874 ). Hodge had equated CD’s theories with atheism, a position that Gray rejected. CD’s copy of Hodge 1874 is in the Darwin Library–Down. Letter to Asa Gray, …
To Asa Gray 5 June [1874]
Summary
Profoundly grateful for AG’s article in Nature; he is especially pleased by what AG says about teleology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (104) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9483 |
To Asa Gray 3 June [1874]
Summary
CD is deeply pleased by AG’s article on him in Nature [10 (1874): 79–81].
Is preparing book on "Drosera and Co." for the printers. Reports observations on digestion in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9480 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . Gray had enclosed a letter …
- … May 1874 . For Rood’s sketch, see the second enclosure to the letter from Asa Gray, 12 …
- … 12 May 1874 and nn. 2 and 3. See letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 and n. 4. CD was …
- … 1874 ( letter to John Murray, 4 April 1874 ). Ohr-spitze : ear-tip. Jane Loring Gray bought a backgammon board in November 1868 (Jane Gray’s expense account ( Asa …
- … 1874 and 9 May 1874 ( [A. Gray] 1874b ); Gray was identified as the author by his initials only in the second part. See letter from Asa Gray, …
- … Gray, Asa. 1874c. Scientific worthies: III. —Charles Robert Darwin. Nature , 4 June 1874, pp. 79–81. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. LL : The life and letters …
- … 1874 ; the copy has not been found. The pretext of the article, by the fictitious Dr. Omelius Friedlowsky, was that the discovery had to be made public for fear that it might be pre-empted by the work of CD and others on insectivorous plants such as Drosera and Sarracenia . The plant was supposed to grow in an area inhabited by both water buffalo and cheetahs, and to have eaten a woman after she drank the viscous fluid it exuded. The wolf story has not been identified; see also annotations to letter from Asa Gray, …
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 |
From Asa Gray 19 June 1874
Summary
Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9501 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … has not been found. See letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1874] . Gray had made the same point …
- … See letters to Asa Gray , 3 June [1874] and 5 June [1874] ; CD had seen both an advance …
- … Orchids,” p. 340. (See also letter to Asa Gray, 30 June [1874] ). Gray referred to Robert …
- … both corrections to Nature (see letter to Asa Gray, 30 June [1874] ), and a version was …
To Asa Gray 25 June 1874
Summary
Remarks on his work on Pinguicula. Notes its digestive power; it absorbs nutritious matter from leaves and seeds as well as insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (108) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9511 |
To Asa Gray 28 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for reviews of Insectivorous plants and of Climbing plants in Nation and American Journal Science [see 10329].
AG’s essay on seed dispersal ["Burs in the borage family", Am. Nat. 10 (1876): 1–4].
Preparing book on advantages of crossing [Cross and self-fertilisation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10370 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 January 1874
Summary
Thanks JDH for Asa Gray’s interesting letter.
Would like JDH’s copy of Coral reefs. Needs it for corrections for a new edition. Cannot buy one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 310; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray Correspondence: Letter from Gray to Hooker, folio 658) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9231 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Asa Gray Correspondence: Letter from Gray to Hooker, folio 658) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Jan 1874 …
- … Asa Gray of 26 December 1873 has not been found, but Gray’s letter, which CD returned to Hooker, is included here as the enclosure. See also n. 6, below. CD stayed at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house in London from Saturday 10 to Saturday 17 January 1874 ( …
From T. L. Marshall 16 July [1874]
Author: | Theodosia Louisa Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 123–4, 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9551 |
From Asa Gray 11 December 1874
Summary
Cannot help with Pinguicula or Utricularia. Mrs Mary Treat is studying Utricularia.
Forwards his short piece on duration of varieties [New York Tribune 8 Dec 1874; Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 9 (1875): 109–14].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9753 |
To Asa Gray 25 December 1874
Summary
Read AG’s article [see 9753] on longevity and duration of varieties with great interest.
Death of Mrs Hooker.
Hopes Insectivorous plants will be out in the spring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9779 |
To Chauncey Wright 21 September 1874 and 29 January 1875
Summary
Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9650 |
To Norman Lockyer 13 May [1874]
Summary
Encloses notes concerning his life and list of publications.
Returns the letters about primroses: they contain little that is new. Dr Bree’s is the best.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer |
Date: | 13 May [1874] |
Classmark: | University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9458A |
From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1874]
Summary
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 241–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9780 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July 1874
Summary
Thinks Frank and he have worked out Pinguicula well and they long to attack Utricularia. Tried several plants with sticky glandular hairs; some few absorb ammonia, but the greater number do not. If JDH sends plant or seed of Lychnis CD will examine it to see whether it catches many flies. Asa Gray has written him much about Sarracenia, with a specimen showing the splendid dodge by which ground insects are enticed up and then drowned. Describes how it may be investigated, to see whether it absorbs decayed matter from flies, or ammonia thus generated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 322–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9529 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1874 and nn. 1 and 2. CD and Francis Darwin began studying the digestive powers of Pinguicula (butterwort), a genus of carnivorous plants of the family Lentibulariaceae, in June 1874 (see letter to Asa Gray, …
- … 1874 and n. 5. Lychnis viscosa is a synonym of Silene viscaria (sticky catchfly or clammy campion). Sarracenia variolaris (now Sarracenia minor , the hooded pitcher-plant) was described by Joseph Hinson Mellichamp ( Mellichamp 1874 ; see letters from Asa Gray , …
To Asa Gray 29 January [1875]
Summary
Asks AG to forward [unspecified] enclosure to Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13813 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1874 and 29 January 1875 ( Correspondence vol. 22). In a postscript dated 29 January 1875 to his letter to Wright of 21 September 1874 ( Correspondence vol. 22), CD explained that the letter had been returned to him because of a mistake in the address, and that since he could not remember whether ‘Cambridge’ was sufficient address, he was forwarding the letter via Asa Gray . …
From Asa Gray 18 July 1866
Summary
Appleton’s cannot alter their plates so as to reproduce revised work [Origin, 4th ed.]. Has made it clear that CD could not do otherwise than object strenuously to course they intend to pursue, and has asked them to return the sheets. Wishes CD’s publisher would supply U. S. market with large numbers of copies, as the English edition could well compete with any American one. Encloses [statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin to 1 February 1866].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1866 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 149–150); DAR 159: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5160 |
To G. J. Romanes [20 January 1878?]
Summary
CD will call on Tuesday morning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [20 Jan 1878?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.484) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11328 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 March [1874]
Summary
CD guessed Carruthers was stirred up by Owen. Disgraceful treatment of Bentham.
Work on Descent and Coral reefs stops his doing anything of real interest.
Asa Gray’s letter. CD has acknowledged the honour [honorary membership in the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.].
"What a demon on earth Owen is. I do hate him."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 313–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9333 |
From Chauncey Wright 24 February 1875
Summary
Speculates on the function of eyebrows and of hair and the furrows of the forehead. Considers many features and faculties to serve, or to have served, more than one function, either simultaneously or successively. Determining the one function through which natural selection has acted in developing it is unrealistic and not worth while.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 173 fos. 1–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9871 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Gray, Asa | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Gray, Asa | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Fiske, John | (2) |
Wright, Chauncey | (2) |