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DCP-LETT-4747

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 146
Summary:

New herbarium is finished.

Congratulations on Copley Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4467

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77)
Summary:

Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".

Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.

Working on Variation

and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.

Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.

Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4833

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 17 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 147
Summary:

Reports Lincoln’s murder.

The end of Civil War is in sight.

Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4877

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 148
Summary:

Is reading CD’s "Climbing plants".

The Civil War is ended; slavery is dead.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87)
Summary:

Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".

Thanks for Specularia seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4919

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93)
Summary:

AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.

Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.

Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4930

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 149
Summary:

Discusses "Climbing plants" and his own abstract of it.

CD should publish results of self-fertilising dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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