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DCP-LETT-10768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118)
Summary:

Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].

Is glad of the notice about black pigs.

Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;

thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (120)
Summary:

Thanks AG for card about Pontederia.

Asks for specimens of Phlox subulata and Gilia aggregata to check for dimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10830

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 193
Summary:

Sends specimen of Gilia aggregata and will try to get Phlox subulata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC170

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 February 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.61, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is busy working on a new edition of his STUDENT'S FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES he compares the delineation of species in the flora to that in Asa Gray's MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES. JDH consults Gray on whether Gymnosperms should be a subclass of Dicotyledons or a group equal to all other Phaenogams? Joseph Decaisne, Gray & JDH favour the former position, Daniel Oliver & William Thiselton-Dyer the latter. Gnetum, esp. Formation of the embryo, will be key in determining the correct arrangement. JDH has sent the corrected SCIENCE PRIMER: BOTANY to the press, he would find such works easier to write if he also lectured. Life with his new wife Hyacinth Hooker is good & his future looks bright though sad times behind him make him doubt its security. JDH's sister Mrs Elizabeth Evans-Lombe, née Hooker is suffering less from neuralgia & melancholy. George Bentham is well. Oliver is working on the African flora, & Moore[?] is working on grasses. Asks if Charles Sprague Sargent can send American Southern Bamboo.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10837

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: A84
Summary:

Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122)
Summary:

Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].

Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10880

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 194
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].

Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.

Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10883

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (117)
Summary:

Leucosmia burnettiana is in all probability dimorphic. Thinks Gilia is truly heterostyled and Phlox subulata was, perhaps, once heterostyled. Has good evidence of heterostyly in 39 genera from 14 families.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC634

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 March 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 19, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10901

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Mar [1877]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (tipped into Orchids 2d ed., EC85 D2593 862oba)
Summary:

Sends an informal title-page [for Orchids, 2d ed.].

Appreciates the condolences for Frank [on death of his wife, Amy].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10918

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 195
Summary:

Lithospermum longiflorum has cleistogamous flowers and, unlike other species of genus, it is not dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC638

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 April 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 20, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC639

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 April 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 21, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC641

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 23, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10969

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196
Summary:

Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10982

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 June [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119)
Summary:

C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.

Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10994

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 197
Summary:

Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11155

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 198
Summary:

Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC643

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 October 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 25, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC644

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 November 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 26, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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