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From George Bentham 26 November 1869
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Comments on CD’s observations on his address; clarifies his view of the importance of isolation, the effect of climate, the plants of S. Africa and Australia.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7012 |
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- … 10. CD had added a reference to Moritz Wagner’s essay in Origin 5th ed. , p. 120; he disagreed with Wagner over whether migration and isolation were necessary for species formation; see Wagner 1868b , and Correspondence vol. 16, letter to Moritz Wagner, [April–June 1868] . Bentham refers to CD’s original plan to publish a book to follow Variation on the ‘variability of organic beings in a state of nature’ (see Variation 1: 4). See letter to George Bentham, 25 November [1869] and n. 12. …
