From:
John Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 35
Summary:
Hopes CD will read and comment on his lecture ["Origin of flora of the Alps", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1879)]. Disgrees with CD; JB maintains that the high antiquity of existing plant genera and families explains wide differences in their distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
