From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 106
Summary:
Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 107
Summary:
Will observe Rhexia for CD to see whether it is dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 108
Summary:
Has been reading J. D. Morell’s new book on psychology [An introduction to mental philosophy, on the inductive method (1862)].
Progress of the Civil War.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 109
Summary:
Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."
Details of U. S. orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 110
Summary:
Has not had time to look at Rhexia.
Progress of Civil War.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 66
Summary:
Discusses heterostyly in Houstonia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2–3 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113
Summary:
Observations on Platanthera.
Possibility of trimorphism in Mertensia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 114
Summary:
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 115
Summary:
Is observing Gymnadenia tridentata.
Has received six copies of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9
Summary:
Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18–19 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 111, 116
Summary:
Notes and observations on orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 111: 81, DAR 165: 117
Summary:
Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 118, 119
Summary:
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 and 13 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 120
Summary:
Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 121
Summary:
Sends Nesaea seeds for CD
and stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 122
Summary:
AG has Cypripedium to send to CD.
Civil War and English feelings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 123
Summary:
Flower structure of Cypripedium insigne.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 124
Summary:
Gives reference to his observations on tendrils [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4: 98–9].
Notes cases in which the pollen of the fertilising plant affects the form of the fruit of the fertilised plant, e.g., gourds and maize.
Discusses the Civil War and the attitudes of the English press.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 125
Summary:
Has forwarded Mitchella roots and Cypripedium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
