From Asa Gray 11 June 1872
Summary
O. N. Rood sends two copies of an amusing picture by T. F. Beard, "The young Darwinian" to AG, who forwards one to CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: D13–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8381 |
From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4089 |
From Asa Gray 28 December 1875
Summary
AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]
and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].
Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10329 |
From Asa Gray 17 January 1865
Summary
New herbarium is finished.
Congratulations on Copley Medal.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747 |
From Asa Gray 5 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4699 |
From Asa Gray 1 June 1857
Summary
Comments on species with disjoined ranges; does not feel, despite CD’s expectations, that they tend to belong to small families.
Gives the proportion of U. S. trees in which the sexes are separate [see Natural selection, p. 62].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 8: 47bA |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2098 |
From Asa Gray 7 August 1866
Summary
Appleton’s will not print a new edition of Origin.
AG has read sheets of new English edition [4th] and is much pleased by the passage on Richard Owen in the historical sketch.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5184 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14. Gray alludes to experiments performed by his colleague at Harvard University, Jeffries Wyman, in order to test the claims of Louis Pasteur to have disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (see Wyman 1862 and 1867). Gray had previously defended Wyman as an accurate observer in the context of debates over spontaneous generation (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
From Asa Gray 22 September 1862
Summary
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 118, 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3736 |
From Asa Gray 24 July 1865
Summary
Is reading CD’s "Climbing plants".
The Civil War is ended; slavery is dead.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4877 |
From Asa Gray 10 October 1866
Summary
Does not think he can persuade American publishers to reprint [4th English ed. of] Origin in U. S. Suggests Murray supply copies of it and the new book [Variation] to the American market.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5237 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11). Acorus calamus is native to North America ( Mabberley 1997 ). CD had reported to Gray the early results of his experiments on the relative growth and vigour of seedlings raised from cross-fertilised and self-fertilised plants; these indicated that the crossed seedlings were significantly larger than the seedlings from self-fertilised plants (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and nn. 13 and 14). …
From Asa Gray 26 May 1863
Summary
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4186 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 May [1863] . The reference is to Introduction to structural and systematic botany and vegetable physiology (A. Gray 1858a, pp. 236–7 and 133–41), which formed the fifth revised edition of The botanical text-book . Hitherto, CD had been consulting First lessons in botany (A. Gray 1857) for information on phyllotaxy, following Hugh Falconer’s claim that the angles of leaves in a spiral up a stem ‘go by as fixed a law as that of Gravity & never vary ’ (see letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] and n. 14, …
