From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 241
Summary:
Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].
Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project