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
