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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

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-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

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

JHC645

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 November 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 27, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC646

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 December 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 28, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC647

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 29, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 and 22 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].

Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.

Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.

Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?

Observations on heliotropism.

Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC648

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 30, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11364

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129)
Summary:

Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC171

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 February 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.62-63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he has resigned as President of the Royal Society. JDH believes [William] Spottiswoode, mathematician & engineer, will be his successor. He explains why he is glad that it will not be [George] Stokes. He hopes that John Evans will be elected treasurer. George Engelmann has written to JDH about his Abies & about Juniperus. JDH disagree with Engelmann that the Sierra Nevada juniper is the same as Juniperus occidentalis of Colorado, he explains in detail the different characteristics & habit of each species including a small sketch of the roots. JDH congratulates Gray on his hypothesis regarding distribution of North American Flora, which ties in well with a lecture JDH is giving on the subject at the Royal Institution. His theme will be meridional distribution & he will compare the effect of the Alps with the American mountains. JDH credits the Mediterranean with less importance as a barrier to another Pliocene than Gray does. JDH has been comparing the flora of the Eastern United States with that of California & is amazed at the differences e.g. in order Caryophyllea. In his lecture JDH will cover Gray's researches on the Japan Flora, his own on Arctic flora, their shared travels in America & subsequent private work. JDH is surprised by the number of Asian types in the flora of West America not present in East America & wonders if they are the result of two Asiatic migrations in different periods. JDH asks Gray's opinion of the last volume of THE LIFE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT & expresses his own surprise at its revelations regarding unconstitutional political manoeuvring by Prince Albert & Queen Victoria, especially in relation to the Crimean War. JDH comments on the reversal in popularity of Gladstone & Disraeli, JDH suspects Gladstone's charges about the ministry intending to help the Turks has moved opinion. JDH is not a Tory but thinks the Liberals have made a mess of things.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC649

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 March 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 31, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC650

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 April 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 32, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC651

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 April 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 33, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC654

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 34, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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