From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.
Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.
Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.