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DCP-LETT-2855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 July [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41)
Summary:

Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.

New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.

Discusses his recent orchid observations.

Poses AG a question on design in nature.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 July [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30)
Summary:

Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].

Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.

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