To Asa Gray 21 [and 22] January 1878
Summary
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 and 22 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11330 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Gray, Asa …
- … To Asa Gray 21 [and 22] January 1878 …
- … Robert Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead 21 Jan 1878 22 Jan 1878 Asa Gray …
- … also Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 . See A. Gray 1878a, …
- … also Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 10 June 1877 . Thomas Meehan’s comments …
- … North America. Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray had spent more than two months travelling …
- … see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 . CD stayed with his …
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1878
Summary
Invites CD to Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11323 |
To G. J. Romanes [20 January 1878?]
Summary
CD will call on Tuesday morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1878?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.484) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11328 |
To W. K. Parker 20 January [1878]
Summary
Thanks for kind note, would like to meet him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kitchen Parker |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Te Papa Archives, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CA000372/001/0001) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11329 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 29 January 1878
Summary
Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11339 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Parker, W. K. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Parker, W. K. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
