From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 160
Summary:
Has read sheets of Variation up to Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 159: 82
Summary:
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013)
Summary:
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 161
Summary:
AG is writing notice of American edition of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6].
Pangenesis is "as good an hypothesis as one can now make".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 162
Summary:
AG is not surprised at popularity of CD’s Variation. Gives some corrections for next edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 102
Summary:
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 March 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.26 & 28-30, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to Asa Gray about his taxonomic work on the Rubiaceae family, he mentions the classification of Hedyotis, Gardeniae & Gouldia. JDH regrets the number of specimens, especially African ones, in the herbarium that remain unexamined. He is working on [William Henry] Harvey's book on Cape Genera: he will do the ferns & Lycopods but not the lower Cryptogams, [William] Munro is doing the grasses. Gay's herbarium has arrived. JDH apologises for trouble with a case of [Francis] Boott's Carices [Carex] sent to Gray. Cannot answer [Charles] Wright's letters on Rubiaceae until he has finished his systematic work on the order. Is critical of [August Heinrich Rudolf] Grisebach's work, especially on Melastoma, also mentions Wright's Cuban Melastoma. Suggests the Smithsonian Institute would undertake a particular publication[?] for Gray. Thanks Gray for seeds incl. Picea amabilis & Pera. Discusses the fact that the United States of America & the United Kingdom have different systems of Government. Asks if Gray has read [Charles] Darwin's last book [THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION [?]] & gives his opinion, at length, on the chapters on heredity through Pangenesis - he considers heredity self evident from observation of propagation & inherent in the acceptance of the theory of natural selection. In a post script JDH adds that he has for sale all the sets of Boott's Carices & reduced rate copies of his book [ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENUS CAREX]. Proceeds of books sold through JDH will go to Boott's grandmother, who will have the care of his children. Discusses Gray publishing a supplemental part to Boott's book, comprised of additional drawings lithographed by Walter Hood Fitch's nephew, John Fitch, & outlines potential cost.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May [1868]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94)
Summary:
AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.
CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 163
Summary:
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 164
Summary:
CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (98)
Summary:
AG’s coming visit to England.
Hooker’s Presidency of BAAS.
A month at the Isle of Wight has done almost nothing for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 165
Summary:
Reached Kew last evening.
Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 170
Summary:
Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
