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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 162
Summary:

Gives CD an instance of facts that can be read either way as to whether a plant (Veronica humifusa) is a species or a variety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 39
Summary:

The Primula experiments of J. Sidebotham; HCW’s distrust of the results [see J. Sidebotham, "Specific identity of the cowslip and the primrose", Phytologist 3 (1849): 703–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
8 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2)
Summary:

Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 94
Summary:

Cover containing some seeds mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (S 4512).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 95
Summary:

Taeas [?] allied to L. hyssopifolia. [Cover containing packets of seed specimens.] Mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (fS 4512).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 51
Summary:

Thanks HCW for Lythrum specimens.

CD has at last finished his Lythrum paper. ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Jan 186[8]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105 f. 222
Summary:

HCW’s criticisms of CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project