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
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Has read sheets of Variation up to Pangenesis.
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".
AG is not surprised at popularity of CD’s Variation. Gives some corrections for next edition.
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.
Reached Kew last evening.
Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.
Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.