From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[10 Nov 1839]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127)
Summary:
Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.
Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.
"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
