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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 31 October [1860] , in which CD asked Gray to …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1860] ). See letter to T. H. …
- … September 1860] , letter from Charles Lyell, 25 September 1860 , and letter to Asa Gray, …
- … Asa Gray, 17 September [1861] . The reference is to the edited volume of autobiographical recollections of Charles Robert Leslie (Taylor ed. 1860). …
- … 1860, when Camilla Ludwig assumed the position. See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 5 January 1861]. John Lindley was editor of the Gardeners’ Chronicle . See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1860] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 December 1860 . The genus Senecio includes ragworts and groundsel. See letter to Asa Gray, …
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 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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letters to J. D. Hooker, 18 [April 1860] , and to Asa Gray , 25 …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 31 October [1860] ). Gray’s observations on …
- … 1860]). The second ( Bowen 1860b ) CD repudiated as being ‘absurd’, ‘monstrous’, and ‘rubbish’ (see ibid . , letter to Asa Gray, …
- … Asa Gray, 31 March [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), Gray informed CD about this transaction: ‘I took about £50 … which
〈 Ap〉 pleton & Co sent me for〈 your〉 book, to pay the printers with’. In May 1860, …
To Asa Gray 16 September [1861]
Summary
Is interested in cases of dimorphism like Primula. Discusses Primula and Linum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3255 |
To T. H. Huxley 17 February [1861]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin: A. Gray asks that THH append a list of philosophical books on subject if he accepts it for Natural History Review.
Sends Gray’s pamphlet of his (republished) reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] for notice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 11 December [1860] and 14 December [1860] , …
- … 1860] . The publishing firm of Nicholas Trübner served as the agent in England for many American works and was distributing Asa Gray’s pamphlet ( A. Gray 1861a ). Williams and Norgate published the Natural History Review . The letter from Asa …
To Asa Gray 17 September [1861]
Summary
U. S. politics and relations with England.
Wants examples of dimorphism similar to Primula.
Structure and function of Spiranthes flower.
Observations and experiments on Drosera.
CD’s views on design.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3256 |
From Jeffries Wyman 8 January [1861]
Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3045 |
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To Frances Julia Wedgwood 11 July [1861]
Summary
Admires FJW’s article ["The boundaries of science", Macmillan’s Mag. 4 (1861): 237–47]. Thinks she understands his book [Origin] perfectly.
On design in nature: the more CD thinks on the subject the less he can see proof of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Date: | 11 July [1861] |
Classmark: | LL 1: 313–14; Christie’s (dealers) (3 March 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3206 |
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 3 July [1860] , and 26 November [1860] . See …
- … 1860. See letters to George Maw , 13 July [1861] , and to H. C. Watson, [17 July 1861]. On CD’s views on the origin and functional importance of sexual dimorphism in evolution, see Ghiselin 1969 and Hodge 1985 . Thwaites 1847 . Asa Gray …
From Asa Gray 11 October 1861
Summary
Notes several cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" in different genera; feels the discovery of pollen that will act only on the pistil of another flower is most important. Believes CD should next turn his attention to investigating cases of "precocious fertilisation".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: 82–3, DAR 110 (ser. 2): 117, DAR 111: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3282 |
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1860] , 23 [September 1860] , and 4 December [1860] ). Lyell approved the proposal ( ibid . , letter to Asa Gray, …
- … 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): …
- … 1860] ). See also Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix III. As Lyell told one correspondent, ‘ Asa Gray’ …
To Charles Lyell 21 August [1861]
Summary
Suggests change in a passage [in MS] of CL’s [Antiquity of man (1863)] dealing with adaptations for travel.
Comments on review of Origin by F. W. Hutton [Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8].
Emphasises importance of variability for natural selection.
Discusses possiblity of intelligent causes in variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.261) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3235 |
To Asa Gray 21 July [1861]
Summary
Is writing his paper on orchids.
Is surprised that AG gets little or no response with Drosera.
Describes the two forms of Primula and asks whether AG knows any analogous cases of dimorphism.
Reports that John Stuart Mill approves of CD’s scientific method.
Discusses American politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3216 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 26 November [1860] ). Letter from Henry Fawcett, …
- … 1860 . CD had read Frederick Law Olmsted’s A journey in the back country late in 1860 and found it to be ‘a remarkably interesting Book. —’ ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, …
- … 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8); he continued to study these plants well into the next decade. His notes on the sensitivity of the leaf hairs to nitrogenous substances are in DAR 54, DAR 60.1, and DAR 60.2. For a description of the experiments CD had suggested Gray might carry out on Drosera , see the letter to Asa …
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
To Asa Gray [after 11 October 1861]
Summary
Thanks AG for notes on hollies.
Replies to an argument for design. Feels it monstrous to consider orchids created as they are now seen, since every part reveals modification on modification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | [after 11 Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3283 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1861]
Summary
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3268 |
To Edward Cresy 28 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks for railway map.
Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."
Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 28 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3165 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 February [1861]
Summary
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3057 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Asa Gray’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to Charles Lyell, 2 February [1861] , in which an extract from it is quoted. J. Richardson 1861 . Trollope 1861 . Collins 1860 . …
- … 1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8), to restrict his activities with the aim of reducing the stress under which he worked. See also L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 534–7. See letters to Asa Gray , …
From Alfred Russel Wallace 30 November 1861
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3334 |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …