From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60)
Summary:
AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].
Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.
Insect fertilisation of orchids.
Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project