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From Frederick Du Cane Godman   21 December [1867]

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Sends a copy of his paper in Ibis [2d ser. 2 (1866): 88–109] on the birds of the Azores,

and one by G. R. Crotch on the Coleoptera [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 359–91].

Author:  Frederick Du Cane Godman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 165: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5737

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  • … see Correspondence vol.  5, letters from H.  C.  Watson, 20 November [1854] and 11 July [ …

From H. C. Watson   [19 November 1854]

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In response to CD’s query, HCW says he cannot supply "any list of species as the flora of a single and sterile soil". Suggests a possible source of information, and provides some figures for Britain, but these apply to diverse soils.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [19 Nov 1854]
Classmark:  DAR 205.9: 402
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1604

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  • … year of this and the letter from H.  C. Watson, 20 November [1854] , is surmised from the …

From H. C. Watson   11 October 1855

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Sends London catalogue of British plants with close species marked.

Charges E. Forbes with fraudulent appropriation of others’ work.

Comments on, and cites possible cases of, CD’s imagined rule that individuals of one or more species in a genus vary in some of those characters by which the species of that genus are distinguished.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Oct 1855
Classmark:  DAR 47: 163a–b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1764

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  • letters from H.  C. Watson, 17 August 1855  and 23 August 1855 . Babington 1851 . Newman 1854 . …
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