From H. C. Watson   20 December [1857]

Summary

Finds he cannot annotate CD’s list of subspecies and varieties as wanted. Mentions again his difficulties with "species"; he "cannot find the proof of species being definite and immutable whatever they may seem to be at any one time and spot".

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-2190

From

Hewett Cottrell Watson

To

Charles Robert Darwin

Date

20 Dec [1857]

Sent from

Thames Ditton

Source of text

DAR 98: A13–14

Physical description

3pp †

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6.

• Darwin, C. R.
• Watson, H. C.