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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Asa Gray

Date:

5 June [1861]

Source of text:

Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60)

Summary:

AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].

Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.

Insect fertilisation of orchids.

Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Samuel Pickworth Woodward

Date:

5 June [1861]

Source of text:

The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b)

Summary:

Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".

Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.

CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.

Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project