From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 160–1
Summary:
Returns reviews of Origin.
F. J. Pictet [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] goes further than he himself realises.
Naturalists will resist CD’s views until faith in certain "impassable" barriers between existent species is shaken.
Gives CD an instance of convergence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
