Search: Charles Darwin in collection 
Darwin Correspondence Project in contributor 
Gray, Asa in correspondent 
letter in document-type 
1870-1879 in date 
Darwin, C. R. in correspondent 
Sorted by:
Modify Search

Showing 21–40 of 68 items

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-10002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 May [1875]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (121)
Summary:

Wants seeds of Nesaea verticillata for crossing experiments to see whether seedlings from "illegitimate unions" are sterile like true hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10370

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (111)
Summary:

Thanks for reviews of Insectivorous plants and of Climbing plants in Nation and American Journal Science [see 10329].

AG’s essay on seed dispersal ["Burs in the borage family", Am. Nat. 10 (1876): 1–4].

Preparing book on advantages of crossing [Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Aug 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (112)
Summary:

AG’s Darwiniana [1876].

Cross and self-fertilisation has now gone to press.

Is preparing new edition of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10656

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (113)
Summary:

Is sending sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. He will be curious to see what AG thinks of it, as AG speaks the truth whether or not he approves. Is sick of trying to correct his "horrid bad style".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 [Nov 1876]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130c)
Summary:

Sends some sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
27 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (114)
Summary:

Thanks for a correction. Hopes AG now has all the sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available