RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1842.08. Waterhouse showed me a most beautiful series from broad Cicindela. CUL-DAR205.5.55. 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.


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Waterhouse Aug. 42. Showed me a most beautiful series from broad Cicindela to tree Cicindela. (just like ants) to ones with still narrower necks & so on to Odecantha— But he doubts whether essential characters graduate.—


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