From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 127, 137
Summary:
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project