From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
To Asa Gray 22 July [1860]
Summary
Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].
Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2876 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Gray] 1860b. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 [July 1860] . CD’s annotated copies of all …
- … receiving the letters to J. D. Hooker, [17 July 1860] and 19 [July 1860] . [Gray] 1860a. …
- … July 1860] , and to T. H. Huxley, 20 July [1860]). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 …
- … Hooker, 7 August [1860] . The ‘missing’ pages did not include any discussions relating to Darwin. See also letter to J. D. …
- … 1860 , and Appendix VI. Ferdinand Hochstetter, who was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the Imperial Polytechnic Institute in Vienna in 1860, attended the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford. Bronn trans. 1860, pp. 495–520. Hopkins 1860 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … 1860 to 2 August (‘Journal’; Appendix II). CD had taken the water-cure at Edward Wickstead Lane’s establishment at Sudbrook Park, Richmond, Surrey, from 28 June 1860 to 7 July (‘Journal’; Appendix II). He refers to the long-continued illness of Henrietta Emma Darwin . Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4 (1860): 410–15, 424–31. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
To Asa Gray 25 April [1860]
Summary
Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2767 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.
Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2910 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and, in this volume, letter to W. B. Carpenter, 6 January [1860] . …
- … s mother. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 September [1860] and 6 September [1860] . …
- … 1860 and [Wilberforce] 1860 . Both articles reviewed Origin . The reference is to Gray’s defence of Origin published in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4 (1860): 411–16. See letters to Asa Gray , 22 July [1860] , and to J. D. Hooker, …
To Asa Gray 8 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses recent reviews of Origin and has made a note on Owen’s [see 2737].
Has become interested in the floral structures of orchids.
Notes his recent observations on Primula; believes he has found male and female forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 June [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2825 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 14 May [1860] and 17 May [1860] , and to J. D. Hooker, 20 May [1860]. CD’s observations …
- … been located. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1860] . CD refers to [R. Owen] 1860a. …
- … Haughton] 1860b. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1860] , and to Charles Lyell , 6 …
- … 1860): 739–52; the second in the July number, no. 62 (1860): 74–90. See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [4–5 June 1860]. For CD’s relief at Henrietta Emma Darwin’s improving health, see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To Asa Gray 28 January [1860]
Summary
If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.
Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2665 |
To Asa Gray 7 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2645 |
To Asa Gray 17 February [1861]
Summary
Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.
Insectivorous plants.
Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3064 |
To Asa Gray 18 May [1860]
Summary
Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.
Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2808 |
To Asa Gray 24 February [1860]
Summary
Last sheets of AG’s review of Origin have arrived. CD’s comments and criticisms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 24 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2713 |
From Asa Gray [10 January 1860]
Summary
Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";
AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2631 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … and letter from Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker, 5 January 1860 ). Gray had asked CD about the …
- … 1860] , in which CD refers to ‘your letter to me of the 10 th of Jan y . ’ The manuscript was, however, marked ‘Jan 5 1860’ by Francis Darwin , perhaps on the basis of the letter from Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker, …
- … 1860 , and letter to John Murray, [25 January 1860] . Jeffries Wyman , a colleague of Gray’s at Harvard University, taught courses on comparative anatomy and physiology. For his importance alongside Gray and Louis Agassiz in the development of natural history in the United States, see Appel 1988 . See also letter from Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker, …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 July 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
To Asa Gray 5 June [1861]
Summary
AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].
Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.
Insect fertilisation of orchids.
Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3176 |
To Asa Gray 11 April [1861]
Summary
Huxley and CD fear Chauncey Wright’s review is too general.
Reports the praise for AG’s pamphlet.
J. S. Henslow is dying.
Francis Bowen strikes CD as weak and unobservant; presumes he is a metaphysician, which accounts for his "entire want of common sense".
Does wild Apocynum catch flies in U. S.?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3115 |
To Asa Gray 11 August [1860]
Summary
Agassiz is strongly opposed to Origin, but CD thinks K. E. von Baer may come out in support.
Discusses the possibility of favourable monstrosities in the light of Theophilus Parsons’ essay ["On the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 1–13].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2896 |
To Asa Gray 8 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for sending W. M. Canby’s letter on Dionaea. Although already familiar with the facts concerning the secretions, the letter "fires me up to complete and publish on Drosera, Dionæa, etc."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | J. L. Gray ed. 1893, 2: 557 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5602A |
To Asa Gray 8 March [1860]
Summary
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2726 |
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
To Asa Gray 16 October [1862]
Summary
Lythrum salicaria is coming out clear.
Would be glad of Nesaea seed.
Is disappointed with Melastoma, but is sure there is something curious to be made out.
His experiments with poisons on Drosera lead him to conclude that it possesses something analogous to nervous matter.
Comments on natural hybrids of Verbascum.
Deplores the Civil War and the feelings it has fostered in Britain.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3766 |
To Asa Gray 14 July [1862]
Summary
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 14 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3656 |
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