[Quickrip-cvs] Arwin and his Teachings" in the

[Grohmann <oct...@wi...>]

23, 1862._ My dear Mr. Darwin,--Many thanks for your most interesting
book on the Orchids. I have read it through most attentively, and have
really been quite as much staggered by the wonderful adaptations you
show to exist in them as by the _Eye_ in animals or any other
complicated organs. I long to get into the country and have a look at
some orchids guided by your new lights, but I have been now for ten days
confined to my room with what is disagreeable though far from
dangerous--boils. I have been reading several of the Reviews on the
"Origin," and it seems to me that you have assisted those who want to
criticise you by your overstating the difficulties and objections.
Several of them quote your own words as the strongest arguments against
you. I think you told me Owen wrote the article in the _Quarterly_. This
seems to me hardly credible, as he speaks so much