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Darwin Correspondence Project

Hewett Cottrell Watson

1804–81

Botanist, phytogeographer, and phrenologist. Edited the Phrenological Journal, 1837–40. Collected plants in the Azores in 1842. Wrote extensively on the geographical distribution of plants.

Sources

DSB

ODNB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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