To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 5 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
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 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
