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DCP-LETT-2969

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
31 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (45 and 124a)
Summary:

Talks of getting copies of AG’s Atlantic Monthly articles for distribution in England.

Describes the pollinating mechanisms of Orchis pyramidalis and Spiranthes autumnalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (27)
Summary:

Has reread AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article. It is admirable, but CD cannot go as far as AG on design.

Mentions other opinions and reviews of Origin.

Relates some experiments on Drosera showing its extreme sensitivity; requests some observations on orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38)
Summary:

The pamphlet of AG’s Origin reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. CD will bear half the costs of publishing.

Will write to Huxley about Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (39)
Summary:

Encloses note from Huxley [see 3022], who would be grateful for Chauncey Wright’s review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (J. L. Gray autograph collection 50)
Summary:

Asks AG to send his reviews [of Origin] as soon as he has definitely fixed on a title for the pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC142

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 June 1860
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he thinks Picrasma japonica is the same as P. ailanthoides. He is not convinced that Gray's Amaroria is a valid genus, it is close to Soulamea. JDH has seen Monroe. Asks Gray not to send things via bookseller as it is expensive, Trupena's charges are especially high. Mentions Gray's description of Holacantha, & correct use of the term hypogynous. Work on the Arctic flora has led JDH to consider the correct classification of North temperate flora, for example Alsineae; many of which could be referred to Stellarias, Holostea or Gramineae. Speculates that Greenland flora is unique & limited due to glacial factors. JDH can find no specimen of Dupontia cooleyi [at the RBG Kew herbarium]. He asks how Narthecium americanum differs from N. ossifragum. JDH has a newborn son [Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker]. [George] Bentham is continuing the Hong Kong colonial flora, FLORA HONKONGENSIS, with support from the Treasury. JDH gives his opinion on [Richard] Owen's review of [Charles] Darwin's theory of evolution [ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION]. Mentions reviews of his own essay [on plant distribution in the FLORA ANTARCTICA, supporting Darwin's theory]. Gray owes JDH for Horsfield's plants. JDH bought Booth's Bhutan plants at the [Thomas] Nuttall [estate] sale. [Letter incomplete, it bears no valediction or signature but is written in the hand of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker].

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Hooker Project
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