From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1858
Source of text:
DAR 76: B15
Summary:
Self-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
[CD note on bees’ visiting some members of Fumariaceae.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 July 1858
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (20)
Summary:
Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.
Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a)
Summary:
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (19)
Summary:
Wishes to know whether differences in constitution (such as disease susceptibility) are related to differences in complexion. "Liability to such a disease as yellow fever would answer my question in the best possible way."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 102
Summary:
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (16)
Summary:
Would welcome American edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a
Summary:
Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";
AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1
Summary:
Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15)
Summary:
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5
Summary:
American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43)
Summary:
If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.
Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44)
Summary:
CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
[8 or 9 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (11)
Summary:
Sends historical preface and corrections for American edition of Origin;
would have liked AG’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84] at the head.
Agrees with AG’s assessment of weak points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (22)
Summary:
Thinks AG’s review is admirable.
Reactions of others to the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1860
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (37)
Summary:
Arrangements for the American edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (23)
Summary:
Last sheets of AG’s review of Origin have arrived. CD’s comments and criticisms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24)
Summary:
Has been ill with pleurisy.
Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31)
Summary:
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project