From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Horticultural Society
Date:
11 Apr 1864
Source of text:
Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society 4 (1864): 91–3
Summary:
The signatories warn the RHS that in offering prizes for collections of specimens of wild English plants, the Society will cause serious injury to varieties already threatened without any real promotion of scientific botany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project