To Asa Gray 3 July [1860]
Summary
Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2855 |
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- … 1860 for a tour in France, Belgium, and Germany. His purpose was to investigate the flint implements and fossils first discovered by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes. Before his departure, Lyell had discussed the possibility of a second post-glacial warm period with Hugh Falconer and Joseph Prestwich ( …
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Gray, Asa | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa |
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| 1860 | (1) |
