To Asa Gray 11 November [1859]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin for comments.
Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2520 |
To Asa Gray 21 December [1859]
Summary
Would welcome American edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2592 |
To Asa Gray 24 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s Japan memoir [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1857–9): 377–452]. Does not think AG’s arguments for a warm post-glacial period are sufficient, but will not be sorry to be proved wrong.
Believes natural selection explains many classes of facts which repeated creation does not.
Writes of some responses to the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2599 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
