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DCP-LETT-2639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[5–11 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 136a (verso); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 77–87)
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of "convergence" occurring; believes it could be only very limited.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3132

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1859
Source of text:
DAR 170: 81; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Notebook 241, pp. 75–90)
Summary:

Response to Origin. Praise for summary of chapter 10 and chapter 11.

The dissimilarity of African and American species is ‘necessary result of “Creation” adapting new species to the pre-existing ones. Granting this unknown & if you please miraculous power acting’.

C. T. Gaudin writes of Oswald Heer’s finding many species common between Miocene floras of Iceland and Switzerland. Interesting for CD’s migration theory.

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