To Asa Gray 15 March [1862]
Summary
Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.
"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3473 |
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … make any such changes to the existing German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 …
- … number of small corrections & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] …
- … that the remainder be included in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he …
- … possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche …
- … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 301. 36. p. 315. This sentence also appears in Origin …