From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 152
Summary:
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project