RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. John Murray scorns Forbes Ideal Morphosis. CUL-DAR205.5.146. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
The brown crayon number '11' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Divergence.
[146]
John Murray scorns Forbes Ideal Morphologyosis & Owens remark that "morphology being somewhat different from induction".
It appears to me an hypothesis is assumed, confessedly false, & yet found highly applicable: hypothesis often assumed to explain facts doubtful, as dispersive or undulating theory of light.— yet never is science before one taken confessedly false.
for the petals of a primrose, never in its young state, or in its parent's state has been a leaf — (though it may become so)
Remember Fern leaf, how it seems to actually turn into inflorescence
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 6 March, 2023