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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- … From American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28 January 1874 …
- … American Academy of Arts and Sciences Darwin, C. R. …
- … 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, …
Gray, Asa (1810–88)
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- … Harvard University American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Association for the …
- … American botanist. Fisher Professor of natural history, Harvard University, 1842–73. Wrote numerous botanical textbooks and works on North American flora. President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, …
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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- … in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5 (1860–2): 102, Agassiz …
- … 1861. ] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5 (1860–2): 102–10. …
- … 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 …
- … American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 30: 142–54. [Reprinted in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 6 (1860): 219–32. ] Bowen, Francis. 1860b. Remarks on the latest form of the development theory. [Read 27 March, 10 April, and 1 May 1860. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences …
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 |
[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.
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 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 24 November 1862
Summary
Gives reference to his observations on tendrils [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4: 98–9].
Notes cases in which the pollen of the fertilising plant affects the form of the fruit of the fertilised plant, e.g., gourds and maize.
Discusses the Civil War and the attitudes of the English press.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3823 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1868
Summary
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6179 |
Wyman, Jeffries. 1866. Notes on the cells of the bee. [Read 9 January 1866.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 7 (1865–68): 68–83.
Bowen, Francis. 1860b. Remarks on the latest form of the development theory. [Read 27 March, 10 April, and 1 May 1860.] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences n.s. 8 (pt 1) (1861): 97–122.
Bowen, Francis. 1861. Observations of the supposed hereditability of peculiar traits of bodily and mental organization, and especially of mental disease. [Read 8 January 1861.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5 (1860–2): 102–10.
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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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 …
