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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (81)
Summary:

Lythrum salicaria is coming out clear.

Would be glad of Nesaea seed.

Is disappointed with Melastoma, but is sure there is something curious to be made out.

His experiments with poisons on Drosera lead him to conclude that it possesses something analogous to nervous matter.

Comments on natural hybrids of Verbascum.

Deplores the Civil War and the feelings it has fostered in Britain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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