From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 79
Summary:
Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.
GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project