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DCP-LETT-7683

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 175, 175/2
Summary:

Is reading Descent.

Encloses some answers to CD’s queries about expressions of Laura Bridgman.

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DCP-LETT-7894

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 176
Summary:

AG hopes to meet CD’s sons, who are visiting America.

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DCP-LETT-8004

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 177
Summary:

Has seen CD’s sons.

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DCP-LETT-8194

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 178
Summary:

Notes the occurrence in U. S. of "vermiform piles" produced by earthworms.

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DCP-LETT-8237

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 179
Summary:

A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.

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DCP-LETT-8363

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 180
Summary:

Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".

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DCP-LETT-8381

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: D13–14
Summary:

O. N. Rood sends two copies of an amusing picture by T. F. Beard, "The young Darwinian" to AG, who forwards one to CD.

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DCP-LETT-8545

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 181
Summary:

Discusses the coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.

AG’s recent tour of the U. S.

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DCP-LETT-8656

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 182
Summary:

CD’s finding the nervous system of Dionaea is wonderful.

Coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.

Thanks CD for the new book [Expression].

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DCP-LETT-8786

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 183; Nature , 27 March 1873, p. 404
Summary:

Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].

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DCP-LETT-9455

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 184
Summary:

Encloses letter and sketch from O. N. Rood on pointed ears.

Reports observations on Sarracenia variolaris. A correspondent finds that the fluid in the pitchers is anaesthetic and that a sweet trail runs down the plant, nearly to the ground, to lure up ants.

Encloses two articles on insectivorous plants [Nation 18 (1874): 216–17, 232–4].

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DCP-LETT-9492

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 185
Summary:

AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".

Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].

It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.

Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.

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DCP-LETT-9501

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 186
Summary:

Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.

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DCP-LETT-9753

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 187
Summary:

Cannot help with Pinguicula or Utricularia. Mrs Mary Treat is studying Utricularia.

Forwards his short piece on duration of varieties [New York Tribune 8 Dec 1874; Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 9 (1875): 109–14].

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