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To Asa Gray   2 January [1863]

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Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.

Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.

Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".

Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  2 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3897

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  • … IV). Letter from J.  D.  Dana, 4 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10). In 1859, James …
  • J.  D.  Dana, 30 December [1859] ). CD refers to his twelve-year-old son, Leonard Darwin . At CD’s request, Gray had, since the summer of 1862, sent United States postage stamps for Leonard’s collection (see, for example, Correspondence vol.  10, …

To Asa Gray   22 January [1862]

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Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".

U. S. politics.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  22 Jan [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3404

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  • 10). In his letter of 31 December 1861 ( Correspondence vol.  9), Gray enclosed a photograph of Dana and informed CD of his improved condition. The references are to Francis Boott and Joseph Dalton Hooker , and to the letter from J.  D.   …
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