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:
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:
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:
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
