From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82
Summary:
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project