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From Gaston de Saporta   2 September 1876

Summary

Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.

Author:  Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Sept 1876
Classmark:  DAR 177: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10587