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DCP-LETT-3897

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56)
Summary:

Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.

Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.

Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".

Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3927

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57)
Summary:

Comments on his own review of Bates’s butterfly paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].

Thanks AG for information on Platanthera.

Has been wasting more time with Melastomataceae; can find no nectar in Monochaetum; is there any in Rhexia?

Hopes Lincoln’s "fiat against Slavery" will have some effect.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3950

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 129, 130
Summary:

Discusses the ill-will between England and U. S.

Considers the bases for deciding which plant species are "high" and which "low".

Comments on Alphonse de Candolle’s paper on oaks ["Étude sur l’espèce", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110].

Encloses S. H. Scudder’s letter on Lepidoptera and fertilisation of orchids which identifies a butterfly with Platanthera pollinia adhering to it. Jokingly applies natural selection to butterflies acted on by orchid pollinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10233

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.120
Summary:

The missing parts will be sent in the Spring. The Academy would be pleased to receive any of JH's publications. Thanks for the pamphlet 'On Atoms.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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