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DCP-LETT-3637

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
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DCP-LETT-3638

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 7–8
Summary:

Never mind the letter to the Geological Society; the museum got the book for Carlyle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3636

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 44–5
Summary:

Will see to Masdevallia and Bonatea.

Domestic matters.

Lyell’s health.

CD’s eczema.

Hopes CD will solve the mystery of Melastoma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1912

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Hector Tyndale
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1445; MS JT/1/TYP/1635-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel443

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 July 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.42
Summary:

In view of the additional costs, should the nebula catalogue be reduced to a 'working list', or should JH go back to the R.S.L. for more money [see GA's 1862-6-29]?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4262

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[2 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.380
Summary:

Suggests Mr. Rüppell apply to Council of R.A.S. for copy of medal. Mentions the head on the medal is [Isaac] Newton's, not William Herschel's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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