Search: letter in document-type 
1870-1879::1877 in date 
Gray, Asa in addressee 
Sorted by:

Showing 115 of 15 items

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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