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From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker   4 January 1861

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Comments on the travels of JDH.

Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.

Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Jan 1861
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3041A

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  • Watson used it to signify the mechanism of divergence. CD disapproved of Hooker’s use of the word centrifugal ( Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Charles Lyell, 31 [October 1859] and n.  3). The correspondence between CD and Watson on ‘convergence’ is in Correspondence vol.  8 (letters from [H.  C.   …
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