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From H. C. Watson [after 23 March 1858]
Summary
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 45: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1808 |
From H. C. Watson 10 May 1860
Summary
Returns reviews of Origin.
F. J. Pictet [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] goes further than he himself realises.
Naturalists will resist CD’s views until faith in certain "impassable" barriers between existent species is shaken.
Gives CD an instance of convergence.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 160–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2793 |
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- … 10 May 1860 My dear Sir I return by same post the four notices of ‘Origin’ which you kindly sent. — Gradually, the various arguments, objections, cavils, etc. on the grand subject are growing into a sort of conglomerate in my recollections; who said this, & who said that, getting pretty much confused together. I hope you can keep them mentally distinct. Pictet goes a good way, —farther perhaps than he himself clearly knows,— on page 15, where you pencil the no. 12, …
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| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
