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From H. C. Watson to George Gordon   27 June 1861

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Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  George Gordon
Date:  27 June 1861
Classmark:  Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3197F

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  • 1859] ). Watson corresponded with CD on various aspects of CD’s transmutation theory, and promoted the idea of a principle of convergence, which, he argued, was necessary to limit the large number of specific types which would proliferate under CD’s principle of divergence (see, for example, this volume, Supplement, letter from H.  C. Watson to J.  D.  Hooker, …
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