From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
26 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/7)
Summary:
Advises THF that best plan is to investigate the part certain structures play with all plants or orders, instead of describing means of fertilisation in particular plants. Naturalists value observations far more than reasoning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project