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To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
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Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
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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- … J. D. Hooker, [16 April 1846] ). Hooker used centrifugal variation to designate variation that accompanied extensive geographical distribution, as in Senecio ( Hooker 1844–7 , p. 315), while 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] …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
