RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1857.03. Hooker says he & Bentham have no doubt that Wight's remark. CUL-DAR205.5.177. 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.
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Hooker says he & Bentham have no doubt that Wights remark on Cucurbitaceæ (his own remark on Saliaceæ —) all depend on this that in isolated groups you have nothing near to look to, & therefore you have got to go far; but that this is common to all classes only that when you have 2 or 3 direct & close affinities you do not look so far.
March 1857
How will this apply to fossils
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