From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Cambridge, [Massachusetts]
April 13, 1863
My Dear Darwin,
Your latest to me is March 20.1 I am very sorry that your health does not hold out as well as it ought.
To my disappointment all my extracts of Bates’ paper on Mimetic Analogy are laid over to July no. of Sill. Journal,2—which you will not wonder at when I tell you that they have put in type at least 16 pages of mine for May no.—the larger part being review of A. DC. on Species derived from Oak-studies.3
⟨half a page excised⟩ am not surprised at his caution about adopting your theory, nor that his opinion about change—i.e. slow & gradual change should “fluctuate”.4
Pray do finish & bring out your book on Variation. I have great expectations of it.5
I have to-day little to write, but cannot resist dropping you a line, though there be nothing in it.
Ever Yours | A. Gray
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4089
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge Mass.
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 133
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4089,” accessed on 20 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4089.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
