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DCP-LETT-8728

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102)
Summary:

Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.

Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8786

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 183; Nature , 27 March 1873, p. 404
Summary:

Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].

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DCP-LETT-8806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106)
Summary:

Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].

Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.

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