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DCP-LETT-3631

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 110
Summary:

Has not had time to look at Rhexia.

Progress of Civil War.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3637

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2–3 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a
Summary:

Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.

Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.

Reports the recent events of the Civil War.

[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".

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DCP-LETT-3661

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 114
Summary:

Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3670

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 115
Summary:

Is observing Gymnadenia tridentata.

Has received six copies of Orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3679

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9
Summary:

Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3688

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18–19 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 111, 116
Summary:

Notes and observations on orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3736

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 118, 119
Summary:

Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".

Changes in orchid flowers as they age.

Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.

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DCP-LETT-3752

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 and 13 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 120
Summary:

Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.

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DCP-LETT-3785

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 121
Summary:

Sends Nesaea seeds for CD

and stamps for Leonard Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3799

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 122
Summary:

AG has Cypripedium to send to CD.

Civil War and English feelings.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3811

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 123
Summary:

Flower structure of Cypripedium insigne.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3823

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 124
Summary:

Gives reference to his observations on tendrils [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4: 98–9].

Notes cases in which the pollen of the fertilising plant affects the form of the fruit of the fertilised plant, e.g., gourds and maize.

Discusses the Civil War and the attitudes of the English press.

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DCP-LETT-3850

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 125
Summary:

Has forwarded Mitchella roots and Cypripedium.

Contributor:
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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.

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DCP-LETT-4056

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22–30 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 131
Summary:

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s article on the supernatural [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].

Has heard that the Incas married their sisters; this may be worth investigating as a case of inbreeding.

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DCP-LETT-4081

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 132
Summary:

The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4089

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 133
Summary:

Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.

AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].

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DCP-LETT-4112

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 134
Summary:

AG’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.

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DCP-LETT-4186

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 135
Summary:

Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].

Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.

Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.

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DCP-LETT-4198

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10–16] June [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 136
Summary:

Possible dimorphism in Phlox.

Knows of no U. S. law prohibiting marriage of cousins.

Gives references to papers on phyllotaxy.

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