From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 114
Summary:
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Wife’s health improved by trip.
Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.
Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.
Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].
Sends orchids from W. H. Gower.
Invites CD and Emma to dine.
Is observing Gymnadenia tridentata.
Has received six copies of Orchids.
His gardener kept an all-night watch on Epipactis palustris but saw no insects visit.
Offers more Epipactis.