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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10–]12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 169
Summary:
So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.
Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.
Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.
Is working on cultivated plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
